HOUSES OF VICE MAYOR, 6 OTHERS RAIDED
Residents of Barangay Poblacon in Marilao, Bulacan shovel sacks of thick mud left by flash floods from heavy rains brought by Typhoon Helen which hovered over the northern part of the country the past days.
The houses of Vice Mayor Gerry Capillano-Abenojar, tagged as alleged drug pusher, and six others believed to be sources of shabu were simultaneously raided by the police and the military early on Thursday resulting in the confiscation of still undetermined amount of shabu, guns and ammunitions. Senior Supt. Ronald Oliver-Lee, police provincial director, said raided were the houses of Abenojar, Clark Nardo, Ronald Moreno, Johnson Ong, and brothers Fidel, Denver and John Vee Evangelista in Barangay Alac here. Recovered were more than 100 sachets of shabu, drug paraphernalia and two firearms from the houses of the Evangelistas. A gun and shabu were also recovered from the house of Nardo. Abenojar and Moreno were invited for questioning.
4 ‘PUSHERS’ GUNNED DOWN IN LAGUNA
Four alleged drug dealers were killed in two separate incidents in the cities of Biñan and Santa Rosa in Laguna on Wednesday. In Santa Rosa City, unidentified suspects shot dead three pushers – Edgardo Mariquit, Elizabeth Mariquit and Gorgonio Villages – inside a house at Garden Villas 3, Barangay Ibaba. The victims were repacking shabu at the 2nd floor of said house when the suspects appeared and shot the victims several times. Similarly, an unidentified pusher was killed in an operation at Barangay Dela Paz, Binan City after the suspect and his cohort offered to sell a sachet shabu to a poseur buyer but drew his gun and fired shots after sensing that he was dealing with the lawmen. His cohort escaped during the shoot out.