2 killed in P1.5-M Cebu shabu stings
Two drug suspects were killed while two others including an inactive member of the Philippine Air Force were arrested in two separate buy-busts in Cebu on Sunday that yielded P1.5 million worth of shabu.
Police identified the fatalities as Jesson Aniñon, of Barangay San Isidro, Talisay City; and Aldrich Cesa, of Barangay Lawaan III, Talisay City.
In Lapu-Lapu City, police arrested a member of the Air Force who had been absent without official leave (AWOL) and his female “boss” who yielded more than P1 million worth of shabu in a buy-bust in Barangay Poblacion.
The Regional Mobile Force Battalion in Central Visayas (RMFB-7) and the Talisay City Police Station conducted a buy-bust in Canton Ville, Barangay Isidro, Talisay City, at past 12 a.m. and during the transaction, Aniñon and Cesa noticed that they were transacting with a police officer.
Police said the suspects fired their .38 revolvers at the operatives, sparking a gunfight.
Members of the Talisay Rescue and Emergency Assistance Team (Treat) said Aniñon and Cesa died instantly.
Police confiscated shabu with an estimated value of P214,064.
Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) found 11 sachets of suspected shabu; and a .38 revolver with three live bullets from Aniñon while seized from Cesa were seven sachets of shabu and a .38 revolver with four live bullets.
Supt. Glenn Mayam, officer-in-charge of the Drug Enforcement Group in Central Visayas, said Marlou Pobadora, 59, of Barangay Babag 1, Lapu-Lapu City; and Elma Salido, 47, of Barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City sold 11 assorted medium and large packs of shabu for P400,000 to an undercover police officer along Plaridel Street at past 12 a.m.
Mayam added that Pobadora and Salido were members of a “big-time” illegal-drug group operating in Lapu-Lapu City.
Seized from them were about 200 grams of shabu with an estimated value of P1,360,000.
Mayam told The Manila Times that Pobadora had been AWOL since the 1990s because he allegedly sold his firearm.
He said Pobadora and Salido did not resist arrest.
“Salido is the distributor of the shabu and Pobadora gets it from her. Salido will just come to him to deliver the shabu,” Mayam added in Visayan.
He said Salido, who was unemployed, was placed under surveillance for about three months.
“Her source of shabu was her boyfriend who was detained in the Mandaue City Jail for an illegal drugs case.”
But, Mayam did not reveal the name of Salido’s boyfriend pending investigation.
He said Pobadora and Salido admitted that they were involved in drug trafficking.
Salido told the police that she was just instructed to engage in the illegal-drug trade.
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