Eastern Samar PNP scores anew in buy bust operation

By ALICE NICART (PIA Eastern Samar)
December 12, 2007

BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar  –  With barely a few months in his new assignment as Police Superintendent and Provincial Director, CSupt. Prudencio de la Cruz led at early morning today a successful buy bust operation in what was believed to be a drug den in Barangay Pangudtan, Oras this province.

In a telephone interview, de la Cruz revealed that he and his team recovered some 62 sachet of suspected Shabu that is estimated to cost more than P60,000 in the house of one Rose Jimenez, 42, a single parent who was found to possess also a 357 Paltic revolver. Together with Jimenez, captured were couple Artemio and Nena Letaba who had some sachet of the so called prohibited drug, some peso bills, three expensive cellphones, four separate sim packs and several drug paraphernalia.

De la Cruz further claimed that such a fruitful operation was attributed to their series of surveillance operations.

“Amin ito”, he answered when asked if there was any civilian or officer who tipped them of the illegal activity in that remote barangay.

“We were armed with a search warrant”, he said, adding that the crime is unbailable.

The Director likewise reported that the suspects, as standard operating procedure will be presented to the PNP Regional Office in Campetic, Palo, Leyte, then shall be transported back to Borongan City for necessary filing of the case.