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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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ILOILO City – A grandson of Barangay Captain Remia Prevendido Gregori of Bakhaw, Mandurriao district was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Desamparados, Jaro district.
An undercover police officer from the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit (RDEU) of the Police Regional Office 6 was able to buy a sachet of shabu from 18-year-old John Mark Gregori and two friends for P1,200 around 9 p.m. on Monday.
Twenty-seven more sachets of shabu valued at P55,000 were recovered from the suspect.
Gregori and his friends – 22-year-old Christian Fritz Magcanan of Barangay Benedicto, Jaro and 18-year-old Rey Mark Altamania of Barangay Desamparados, Jaro – were taken to the Jaro police station.
According to Senior Inspector Kennith Bermejo of the RDEU, Gregori was a high-value target whose shabu supply came from Barangay Bakhaw.
Most of the suspect’s customers were university students such as those from John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University, said Bermejo.
Gregori used fake identification card to pass himself off as a student to enter the school, the police officer added.
On Sept. 18, Barangay Captain Remia Prevendido Gregori, sister of slain drug lord Richard Prevendido, surrendered to the police. But she insisted before the Mandurriao police station she was not involved in drug trafficking.
According to Inspector Juan Tigaronita, acting police chief of Mandurriao, the barangay captain was a high-value target of the police in the campaign against illegal drugs.
“We are thankful that she turned herself in to our police station,” said Tigaronita, adding that it took them quite some time to convince the barangay captain to do so.
Her brother Richard was killed in a shootout with policemen in Barangay Balabago, Jaro district on Sept. 1./PN
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