Drug buy-bust arrest leads to rescue of kidnapped boy

CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna, Philippines – The arrest of three suspected drug traffickers in a buy-bust operation in Naic, Cavite last Monday night has led to the rescue of a seven-year-old boy who was snatched last Feb. 11 in General Trias town, authorities said.

Superintendent Romano Cardiño, intelligence chief of the Cavite police, said the suspects – Salvacion Abagon, 42, and his brother Julius, 33, and Jason Angeles, 33 – confessed that the boy was in their custody.

Cardiño said they were looking into the double-cross angle in the kidnapping of the boy, whose mother was also a suspected drug trafficker in Cavite.

The three suspects were arrested while selling P500 worth of shabu to an undercover agent in an operation in Naic town last Monday night.

Cardiño said they received information from the intelligence unit of the Gen. Trias police that the gang led by the Abagon brothers was tagged behind the kidnapping of the boy last Feb. 11.

During interrogation, the elder Abagon confessed that the boy was in their custody, prompting the police to conduct a follow-up operation to rescue him.

The boy was rescued unharmed from the suspects’ residence in Barangay Ibayo Estacion, Naic town, Cardiño said.

Also found in the house was an eight-year-old boy who turned out to be a son of the younger Abagon.

Charges of kidnapping and drug pushing were filed yesterday against the three suspects, Cardiño said.