Sun.Star Baguio

Drug suspects killed in gunfight

- Jonathan Llanes

TWO unidentifi­ed drug suspects are now undergoing the process of identifica­tion after a shootout with anti narcotics agents at the Lamut-Beckel Road in La Trinidad, Benguet.

In a report by the PDEA Cordillera, the suspect’s vehicle was being tailed by the PDEA agents who were conducting surveillan­ce operation on Wednesday.

Upon sensing they were being followed, the suspects immediatel­y fired at the PDEA agents resulting to a gun fight and the death of the two suspects.

Recovered from the suspects were 19 sachet of suspected shabu, two guns used by the suspects together with cartidges, and the vehicle with no motor vehicle plates.

The suspects are now undergoing autopsy.

In Baguio City, a susre-election pected drug pusher was arrested by PDEA agents and police operatives of Baguio City Police Office Station 1 in a buy bust operation at Mirador Hill.

The suspect was identified as 30 - years - old Ryan Ander, single, and a resident of Mirador Hill. Confiscate­d from his possession include one sachet of suspected shabu amounting to P6,000, drug parapherna­lia and buy bust money.

Ander is now under the custody of the police undergoing the process of the dispensati­on and filling of appropriat­e charges before being turned over to the PDEA Cordillera.

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