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VOLUME XXII No. 14
Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines
October 10, 2007 issue
 

Big drug bust in Inabanga raid;3 persons arrested

 

 

Policemen scored anew in the campaign to rid the province of illegal drugs with raids conducted in Inabanga town that led to the arrest of three drug personalities. The raid which was carried out by a joint team led by the Criminal Investigation Group (CIDG) along with elements from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-7, Bohol Provincial Police Office-Special Operations Group, Regional Mobile Group-7 and the Inabanga PNP also yielded illegal drugs and firearms. The joint team led by Chief Insp. Germano Mallari struck first about 6 am in Barangay Badiang. The raid resulted in the arrest of Elizabeth Ceniza who yielded a sachet of suspected shabu powder, three cellular phones and drug paraphernalia. Just an hour later, the joint team carried out the second in the series of raids against suspected drug personalities. The raiders arrested one Christopher Lofranco, a resident of the said place.

The raiding team recovered two caliber .38 bullets and three ammunitions for a caliber .22 magnum from the suspect. The third suspect who fell into the long arm of the law was one Pedrito Lofranco, a resident of Barangay Lawis. Lofranco yielded a caliber .45 revolver with 18 live bullets, six bullets for a 12-gauge shotgun, a cellular phone, cash and drug paraphernalia among others. The arrest of the three suspects was carried out by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by Judge Irma Zita Masamayor of the Regional Trial Court branch 52 based in Talibon town. The raids against the three suspects were witnessed by barangay officials of the respective places of arrest. All three were detained at the CIDG office in Camp Dagohoy , Tagbilaran pending the filing of illegal possession of prohibited drugs, illegal possession of firearms and explosives and violation of the Comelec gun ban respectively.

 
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