Entrapment nets WV drug personality, illegal drugs cache
Operatives from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Regional Special Operations Group recovered a huge quantity of illegal drugs and firearms during an entrapment operation Friday night in Mandurriao district.
The entrapment operation also resulted in the arrest of a suspected big time drug pusher in Western Visayas, a minor and a former disc jockey turned businessman.
The PDEA recovered a plastic bag containing shabu which the suspects sold to agents for P25,000, three medium and small plastic sachets also containing shabu, dried marijuana leaves, pieces of paper, empty plastic sachets used in repacking, a cal. 40 grenade launcher, a cal. 22 revolver, and a digital weighing scale. They also impounded a Mitsubishi car used by the suspects.
A source at the PDEA said that they will file criminal charges for violation of Republic Act 9165 probably by Monday against Jun Diestro, Ferdinand Vargas and the minor.
Diestro, a resident of Brgy. Taft North, is among the top 5 in the watchlist of suspected big-time drug pushers in Region 6, the source said.
Quoting from the incident report, SPO2 Marcos Tio of the Mandurriao police said that Diestro is a member of the Prevendido group, which deals in illegal drugs.
Diestro, the source said, is married to a certain Ana Prevendido.
The 42-year-old Vargas is a businessman and a former radio disc jockey. He owns the car the suspects used when they were entrapped.
Considering the quantity of illegal drugs recovered from the suspects, they will not be able to post bail for their provisional liberty, the source said.
The 17-year-old minor, who works as a waiter in a restaurant, is now with Balay Dalayunan, which houses children in conflict with the law.
The suspects tried to flee from the police, and tried to dispose of the illegal drugs by throwing them away.
Unfortunately, the police caught up with them along Benigno Aquino Avenue. They also recovered some of the items thrown by the suspects.
The recoveries have been turned over to the Philippine National Police crime laboratory at the Camp Martin Delgado here for confirmatory tests on the substances.
The entrapment operation follows a lengthy surveillance by PDEA agents.