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BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA
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ILOILO City – Jesus “Jing-jing” Espinosa Jr., former councilman of Barangay Monica Blumentritt, City Proper, was charged with illegal drug and gun possession in connection with the Oct. 2 raid of his house.
The complaints were filed at the Iloilo City Prosecutor’s Office by the Regional Anti-Illegal Drugs Task Group (RAIDTG) that conducted the raid.
The police claimed to have recovered the following from Espinosa’s house:
* seven sachets of shabu
* .45 pistol with serial number C232884-3
* magazines with 30 rounds of ammunitions
* three black holsters
* .9mm pistol with serial number H81167 and expired permit to carry firearms outside residence (PTCFOR)
* magazine with 22 ammunitions, and
* P25,955 cash.
“Nangin positive ang resulta sang search warrant. Kinahanglan gid mag-file sang kaso,” said Superintendent Gilbert Gorero, spokesperson of the Police Regional Office 6.
When Espinosa turned himself in to Branch 31 of the Regional Trial Court at the Chief Justice Ramon Q. Avanceña Hall of Justice on Oct. 4 for a separate case (his conviction for frustrated murder), he declined to say if he would be filing countercharges against the RAIDTG.
Presently, Espinosa is detained at the Iloilo Provincial Integrated Jail in Barangay Nanga, Pototan, Iloilo.
His wife Keith, the barangay captain of Monica Blumentritt, was more vocal against the raid. She claimed the shabu sachets were “planted” and that the security cameras in their house was deliberately switched off by the raiding policemen./PN
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