Aklan police nabbed suspects in anti-drug campaign
BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL

Mag-asawa, arestado sa pagduso it shabu sa Kalibo / Bombo Radyo

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The suspects during the inventory of seized items with the raiding team and the local media. The raid is part of the Aklan Police Provincial Office (APPO) intensified campaign on illegal drugs / PHOTOS BY BOY RYAN ZABAL

KALIBO - Two alleged drug suspects were arrested by joint elements of the Aklan Police Provincial Office (APPO) and the Kalibo police station for violations of Republic Act No. 9165 otherwise known the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 on Sunday morning.

SPO4 Clemencio Nava, Sr. of the Provincial Intelligence and Special Operations Group (PISOG) identified the suspects as 31-year old Pablito Dice, Jr. alias "Toto" and his wife Estrella Dice alias "Pangkik", 35, of Barangay Minanay, Sigma, Capiz and presently residing at New Buswang, this town.

Armed with a search warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Executive Judge Marietta Homena-Valencia on January 9, the raiding team swooped down the house of Dice at around 5 a.m. Sunday this morning.

Seized from the suspects are 17 small transparent sachets of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu placed inside a small brown wallet.

The wallet was turned over by the couple's 13-year old daughter to the raiding team in the presence of New Buswang kagawad Redentor Feliciano and the local media.

Four plastic sachets containing white crystalline granules were also recovered from the back portion of the wall decor and in the kitchen area, 30 pieces of plastic for repacking of prohibited drugs outside the house, a swiss knife, two pieces of P100 peso bill used as marked money, cellphones, lighter, passbook savings and checking accounts, six pieces of third currencies and P5,020 cash in different denominations.

The small poultry farm raided by the composite team is located about 300 meters away from a local mall and the Kalibo public market.
Nava said the suspects are facing violations of Section 5 and 11 of RA 9165. The raid was carried out after doing surveillance for more than three weeks of the activities and premises of the suspects including a test buy operation on January 8, the police said.

Section 5 or pushing of drugs and 11 or illegal possession of illegal drugs are offenses under Article II of RA 9165.

The seized drug items will be brought to the PNP crime laboratory in Iloilo City before the suspects are subjected to inquest proceedings at the Aklan Provincial Prosecutor's Office, PO2 Gilmore Cuare said.
The suspects are now under the custody of the Kalibo police station pending the filing of charges against them.
Aklan Senior Supt. Epifanio Bragais, Jr., for his part, lauded the operation and the efforts of the Aklan police authorities for their relentless campaign against illegal drugs.
The raid, headed by Chief Insp. Aden Lagradante and Senior Insp. Arnolito Laguerta, Jr., is part of the government's war against illegal drugs in Aklan.