Tempo

Lady cop nabbed during shabu session

- (Dhel Nazario)

An active member of the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) was arrested with two others after they were caught engaged in a shabu session yesterday in Barangay Tuktukan, Taguig City.

Arrested were PO3 Lynn Tubig, 38, a member of the PNP-SAF detailed at Force Support Batallion in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City, and John Vincent German, 21, and Fernando German, 43, both residents of Kakawayana­n, Purok 6, Barangay Tuktukan, Taguig City.

Initial investigat­ion revealed that the three were arrested around 12:30 p.m. Kakawayana­n, Purok 6, Barangay Tuktukan, Taguig City.

A certain "Mrs. Geronimo" initially reported to members of the Police Community Precinct 6 of the Taguig City Police that she was a victim of a thief. Probers then went to the theft victim’s place to look for the suspect.

During the follow-up operation, cops spotted the alleged suspect who was carrying a gun and immediatel­y ran towards shanties where the three were eventually spotted by the police engaged in a pot session.

The trio immediatel­y arrested, confiscati­ng from them three heatsealed sachets of suspected shabu weighing 1.5 grams, 41 pieces of live ammunition of a caliber 5.56 firearm, seven pieces of a caliber .9mm, and five pieces of 12 gauge live ammunition.

Police also recovered two empty packs of suspected shabu, a lighter, aluminum foil strips and a roll of aluminum foil. PO3 Tubig confessed that she was indeed using illegal drugs.

The suspects and confiscate­d evidence will be turned over to the Station Drug Enforcemen­t Unit for proper dispositio­n.

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