Cordillera cops bag three law breakers
SEVERAL individuals were collared by authorities over the week in the Police Regional Office’s intensified drive against criminality in the Cordillera region.
In Mt. Province, a drug transporter tried to elude arrest in a check point along the national road at Sitio Malanas, Poblacion, Sadanga on October 29 but was later on collared by police.
Karl Dave Alzate Monreal, 24, and a resident of North Poblacion, Bucay, Abra was arrested by joint elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the region, Sadanga police and Mt. Province Public Safety Command.
In a belated police report, the arrest of Monreal came after police conducted a checkpoint in the area which saw a blue van with plate number JEB 413 which was parked at the Malanas Bridge, a few meters away from the checkpoint.
The suspect who was carrying a black traveling bag suddenly alighted from the van and ran towards the river below the bridge prompting the operatives to chase Monreal.
As a result, the bag yielded eight marijuana bricks wrapped with a cling scotch tape weighing at least eight kilograms with an undetermined street value.
Meanwhile, in its continuing campaign against loose fire arms,
police arrested Pio Timbreza Tuscano in his residence at Sitio Dardaraos, Cabcaburao, San Juan, Abra on October 28 during the implementation of a search warrant issued by Judge Raphiel Alzate of RTC Branch 1, Bangued, Abra.
Confiscated from Tuscano were Colt M1911A1 caliber .45 pistol bearing serial number 235560 with two magazine assemblies, 13 ammunitions, and one black holster.
On illegal logging, Mark Roland Dangadang Casio, 27, a resident of Banig Tawang, La Trinidad, Benguet was nabbed along Purok 4, Pinsao Proper, Baguio City in the morning of October 29 after he failed to present any cutting permit to the personnel of the Police Station 2 responded to the area following a report that a person was illegally cutting a tree.
All arrested suspects together with the seized items are now under the custody of the authorities while appropriate charges were filed against them in court.
According to PROCor regional director Cheif Superintendent Francis Elmo Sarona, police continuous to focus on law enforcement activities to decrease street crimes through it operations on anti-criminality, internal security, and anti-terrorism strategy, aside from the implementation of an enhanced police management operation.