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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Thursday, August 17, 2017
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ILOILO City – The policeman arrested for alleged violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act on Aug. 12 accused colleagues of “planting” shabu.
This serious accusation of Police Officer 1 Domar Deocampo has prompted the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) to order an investigation on Police Station 1.
Deocampo was formerly assigned to the Molo police station. At the time of his arrest by Police Station 1 operatives in Barangay Tanza Baybay, City Proper he was already connected with the police station in Pandan, Antique.
Also arrested on Saturday were Deocampo’s father Dominador, barangay captain of Tanza Baybay, and mother Marissa.
ICPO’s Investigation Division head, Chief Inspector Ruel Firmo, will lead the probe.
If the arrested policeman were to be believed, no buy-bust took place. He said he was already sleeping but was awakened around 2:30 a.m. by Police Station 1 commander, Chief Inspector Aldrin Lamera knocking on the door of his house.
With Lamera were Police Officer 3 Wilfredo Tagle and six other cops, said Deocampo.
According to Deocampo, Lamera asked him to come out of the house and right there he was handcuffed, forced to board the police patrol car then taken to Police Station 1.
At the police station, Deocampo said, he stripped himself of most of his clothes to supposedly avert any attempt to “plant” evidence on him.
Deocampo said he was familiar with this because when he was still with the ICPO this was what he did to drug suspects.
At the police station, according to Deocampo, Police Officer 3 Tagle got from his own pocket P1,200 cash and two sachets of shabu then declared that these were the buy-bust money and shabu recovered from their operation against him.
Meanwhile, Deocampo’s father Dominador also denied possessing the shabu and the hand grenade supposedly recovered from him.
Police Station 1 claimed 18 sachets of shabu and a hand grenade were recovered from Dominador./PN
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