WAR VS DRUGS

QUEZON CITY: Seven persons were arrested in separate operations by the Quezon City police against illegal drugs over the weekend.

Operatives of the Fairview Police Station arrested Henry Ababon, 28; Ruel Flor, 40; Justin Rosal, 22; and Rosendo Pangal, 21, in a pot session on Chestnut St., Barangay Greater Fairview at 10:30 a.m. Friday.

Police said a concerned citizen informed them of the drug activity. Seized from the suspects were five sachets of suspected shabu and drug paraphenalia. They also found an improvised gun or “sumpak” loaded with 12 bullets. The other suspects were identified as Mandy Gasheda, 34; Teresita Tuson, 59; and Don Cobarrubias, 59. (Vanne Terrazola)

CALOOCAN CITY: The Caloocan Anti-Drug Abuse Council called on drug personalities to undergo the out-patient rehabilitation program called Community-Assisted Rehab and Recovery Out-patient Training and Treatment System to be delisted from the police drug watchlist, saying that only then they could sleep tight at night.

Atty. Sikini Labastilla, CADAC head, said drug personalities in Caloocan should seize the “chance to be removed from the drug watch-list in order for them to be at peace.”

“To be blunt, if they don’t want to be subjected to Tokhang or die, they should undergo the program and change. If they pass the four-month program, they could sleep tight at night, not fearing for their lives,” Labastilla said.

Fr. Luciano Felloni, of the Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, agreed. He said some of his parishioners told him they were “mistakenly identified as drug personalities.”

The priest serving in the country for 23 years said entering the program is a way to prove their innocence that will lead to their delisting from the police drug watchlist.