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.
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 hydrochloride) 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.
He said one of the
itineraries of the trade from Manila would be a pusher who uses public
transport or private car brings a kilo of shabu.
“So bagsak ng
Villasis 100 gm, Candon (City, Ilocos Sur) 100gm. Pag dating ng (Ilocos) Norte
ubos na ang one kilo niya”
This city chief of
police Supt. Abrahano told Northern Watch that one kilo of shabu cost P1 to P2
million.
Abrahano, a bemedaled
former Presidential Security Group and former Narcotic Command official, cites
the Chinese manufacturer of the illegal drugs, say, in Manila maintains three
to five middlemen considered as the first front traffickers. Those middle men
have been selling the merchandise with the supply areas ((SA) in Quiapo,
Dasmarinas, Cavite, Tarlac, Olongapo, and others where a big time trafficker in
Pangasinan province patronizes before he distributes them to the number of drug
groups (DG) in the 3 million populated province. The DG would cut into pieces
what they dubbed as ”tarya” and sell it to the peddlers in the city and the
nearby towns who sell them by even adulterating them to maximize their profit.
(You can accessed here Abrahano's interview "Anatomy of Illegal Drugs in PH": http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-anatomy-illegal-drugs-in-pgasinan.html)
(You can accessed here Abrahano's interview "Anatomy of Illegal Drugs in PH": http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-anatomy-illegal-drugs-in-pgasinan.html)
When asked why the
Philippine National Police could not arrest big time drug pushers, Ariola
explained that the constraint of the PNP is the availability of huge sum in
their coffer to buy bust a big time drug pusher.
“For example may
budget ka na P50 thousand so iyang P50 thousand mo kahit per bolto ng five
grams tapos bibigyan ko ng P15 thousand. So iyan lang iyan, Puwedi mo siyang
singitan (fake monies) kung paano mo siya diskartehan pero kelangan pasok
lahat”.
He said buy bust
operation is not based on one deal. A
police operative has to build trust and confidence before the eyes of the pusher.
“Pag test buy mo bili
ka ng P20 thousand. Bili ka uli ng P15 thousand. Ilan ang kakainin noong test
buy. Ilang test buys ang gagawin mo?” he posed.
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