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Some 100 suspected drug personalities have been arrested in Bohol by the National Bureau of Investigation Bohol in the last 10 months.
NBI Bohol official says province is ideal for transport of drugs since it has many surrounding islands
AGENTS of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Bohol arrested suspected 100 drug personalities in the past ten past months and the operations yielded 2.5 kilos of shabu worth P5 million.
Head Agent Rennan Augustus Oliva, a lawyer, told Sun.Star Cebu the suspects were caught in 33 operations.
“Bohol has its own share of the drug problem. Because of the many islands composing it, which is accessible from Cebu, Leyte and Mindanao,” said Oliva, the agent-in-charge of NBI’s Bohol District Office.
He further said, “The place is ideal for the transport of drugs. Our office arrested drug pushers from Cebu, Leyte, Davao, Bukidnon, Agusan and Misamis plying their trade here.”
Oliva said the NBI agents in Bohol are coordinating with the NBI Central Visayas, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 7 and the National Prosecution Service for effective operation and prosecution against the suspects.
“We are heeding the call of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war against drugs,” he said.
Surrender
Last June 21, suspected Danao City-based drug lord Alvaro “Barok” Alvaro surrendered to the team led by Oliva in Bohol.
Alvaro’s surrender happened four days after another alleged drug kingpin Jeffrey “Jaguar” Diaz, was killed by the operatives from the Regional Intelligence Division and Regional Special Operations Group in Las Piñas City in Manila.
It was Alvaro that the police operatives led by then RID Chief Rex Derilo and RSOG Chief George Ylanan were trying to arrest, when they got into a shootout instead.
Police killed Diaz and his bodyguard. Alvaro reportedly escaped.
Raid
Alvaro is jailed at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center because of the case filed against him during a raid in his resthouse in Catmon, northern Cebu last year.
In that raid, the police seized several high-powered firearms and five kilos of shabu reportedly owned by the suspected drug lord.
Alvaro was also accused by the police as the mastermind behind the murder of Senior Insp. Jonas Tahanlangit, then the Poro, Camotes police chief, last April. The suspect denied the allegation in an interview with investigators.