Lemery antidrug op nets kagawad, 2 others

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BY RUBY SILIUBRICO
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Sunday, June 18, 2017
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ILOILO – A barangay kagawad (village councilman) and two construction workers were caught in an antidrug operation in Barangay Imbaulan, Lemery town.

Police arrested Imbaulan kagawad Gilmar Azuelo, 42; Romel Oribe, 38, of Barangay Airport, Mandurriao, Iloilo City; and Allen Barrientos, 44, of Barangay Balaring, Silay City, Negros Occidental.

Azuelo sold to an undercover officer a plastic pack of shabu for P300 around 6 p.m. on Friday. Oribe and Barrientos were with him, said Senior Inspector Elmer Villaruel, municipal police commander.

The kagawad resisted arrest but the officers subdued him.

Three more plastic packs of shabu and the marked money were seized from him.

“Azuelo is a newly identified drug pusher. The construction workers worked for his uncle, who helped us in the operation,” Villareal said.

The kagawad refused to name his suppliers. “Our latest investigation showed he gets his drug supply from Negros Occidental and Iloilo City,” said Villaruel.

Moreover the Imbaulan barangay captain signed the declaration that their village is “drug-cleared” without knowing about Azuelo’s alleged trade.

“We were supposed to declare our town ‘drug-free,’ but we learned about a kagawad allegedly selling prohibited drugs,” Villaruel said.

All three suspects were facing charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./PN

 

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