By Mortz C. Ortigoza
DAGUPAN CITY – The chief of the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operation Task Group (PAIDSOTG) explains why illegal drug pushers abscond to other towns in Pangasinan after the police ran after them.
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| SHABU QUEEN. Alleged illegal drug shabu queen Daria Fatima Lim (extreme left), 38, single, after she and three male companions were arrested in a buy bust operation by the joint elements of Calasiao, Pangasinan police and the Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency in Brgy. Buenlag of the town. Lim is rumored to be one of the notorious shabu dealers in the town. Several months ago, PO1 Jerry D. Mabanglo, assigned at the Philippine National Police office in San Manuel, Pangasinan, was arrested inside the house of Lim in possession of the illegal drug’s methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu and its paraphernalia during a raid by the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operation Task Group (PAIDSOTG) led Supt. Benjie Ariola who raided it. MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA |
Supt. Benjamin Ariola cited the tendency of the pushers here and those in the cities of Urdaneta and Alaminos to shift to neighboring towns to perpetuate their illicit trade.
He said drug operation in Urdaneta City has been aggressive under the tight watch of its chief of police Supt. Jeff Fanged.
“Merong disruption technique po si Fanged. Pumunta sa Villasis. Alam mo kung ilan ang huli ng Villasis? 145 grams o P300 thousand to P500 hundred ang street value”.
He cited the interruption techniques of Supt. Fanged made pushers scampered to neighbouring Binalonan and Asingan towns.
Ariola would not say what kind of disruption techniques Fanged dealt those scared pushers.
Manaoag did not get the moist eyes of pushers in Urdaneta City because of its location unlike Villasis and Asingan that are stone throw away from the city.
He said after the police seized 198 grams of shabu (methamphetamine hydro-chloride) in Alaminos City, the illegal trade there and the towns in the Western part of Pangasinan became sluggish.
He cited however those pushers shifted to Bani town after 98 grams had been confiscated by police there.
He cited the drugs in Alaminos City came from Infanta town.
He cited the drugs in Alaminos City came from Infanta town.
Because of the gung-ho operation of Supt. Cris Abrahano, Dagupan City’s chief of police, where almost every day pushers are nabbed, Ariola said pushers in the city run to nearby Calasiao and Mangaldan towns to perpetuate their trades.
“Kita mo sa Dagupan City matinde rin operation diyan halos araw-araw may nahuhuli operation diyan,” he said.
Ariola cited Mangatarem, Infanta, and Urdaneta City as the three gateways of drugs in Pangasinan after big time pushers bought shabu in the National Capital Region and Cavite province.
“Pagpasok sa Mangatarem. So ang babagsakan niyan Malasiqui, Bayambang, Calasiao, Dagupan. Central so kuha na rin”.
He said drugs also proliferate in Bayambang and Malasiqui because they are near Camiling, Tarlac where drug trades thrive.
He said his men seized a substantial size of shabu in Mangatarem.
He said in the tactical interrogation of his men with apprehended drug peddlers most of them incriminate the Muslims as their source.
“Kasi lahat ng sources ay tinuturo, iyang tactical interrogation pag huli ng subject, saan galing ang item? Sa Muslim. Parang Muslim ang tinuturo,” he said.
