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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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ILOILO City – A suspected member of the Odicta drug group was shot in Barangay Rizal Estanzuela, City Proper.
The 66-year-old Roberto “Toto” Supremo died of gunshot wounds on the head and right shoulder at the Iloilo Doctors’ Hospital on Sunday night.
Around 7:30 p.m., Supremo sold a sachet of shabu to an undercover police officer for P300 outside his house.
When he realized he was being entrapped, Supremo ran to his house, according to Senior Superintendent Remus Zacharias Canieso, city police director.
The police forcibly entered the suspect’s house to supposedly arrest him.
“The suspect, however, was armed with a hand grenade and a gun. Our men didn’t have a choice but shoot him,” said Canieso.
The operation was carried out by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO).
Chief Superintendent Jose Gentiles, regional police director, said Supremo was a “handler” of the Odicta group’s illegal drug and gambling operations.
Supremo was also handling the Odicta group’s hit men, added Gentiles.
The police recovered from Supremo’s house a grenade, the P300 buy-bust money, a .38 pistol, ammunitions, holster and P74,765 cash.
Supremo became the 15th casualty in the police’s Oplan Double Barrel campaign against illegal drugs in Western Visayas that started on July 1 this year. The other casualties were:
* Melvin and Meriam Odicta, killed on Aug. 29 at the jetty port in Malay Aklan
* Romy Hisog, killed last month in Barangay Bakhaw, Mandurriao, Iloilo City
* Elpidio Geroy of Barangay Jereos, La Paz, Iloilo City
* Welmer Gomez of Barangay Bakhaw, Mandurriao, Iloilo City
* Mark Anthony Sorongon, 48, shot dead in Barangay Baybay, Roxas City
* retired Senior Police Officer 1 Wilson De Leon, killed on Aug. 18 in Barangay Pali, Mandurriao, Iloilo City
* Reynante Tanaleon, shot on Aug. 18 in Barangay Agsanayan, Buenavista, Guimaras
* Michael Huesca, shot on Aug. 18 in Barangay Railway Poblacion Ilaya, Passi City
* Paul Centeno, shot on Aug. 18 in Barangay Pili, Ajuy, Iloilo
* Michael Angelo Abebinir, shot on Aug. 17 in Barangay Bakhawan Sur, Concepcion, Iloilo
* Kenneth Sumudivilla, shot on Aug. 5 in Barangay Compania Central, Molo, Iloilo City
* Panfilo Artuz, shot on July 18 in Barangay Malitbog Centro, Calinog, Iloilo; and
* Freddie Sumbing, shot on July 18, RBR Beach Resort, Barangay Sto. Niño, Arevalo, Iloilo City./PN
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