Pangasinan’s top high value drug target arrested
POZORRUBIO–The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) reported the arrest of the province’s top high value target (HVT) in the province by operatives of a joint team of the Pangasinan police , the Pozorrubio police, Urdaneta City police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Irisan, Baguio City on April 18.
The operation led by P/Chief Inspector Melicio Mina, officer-in-charge at the Pozorrubio Police Station, arrested Arnold Soriano, 48, a resident of Alipangpang, Pozorrubio, Pangasinan’s No.1 wanted drug personality in the watch list.
Also arrested in that operation was Cherry Licaycay, 40, also of Alipangpang, Pozorrubio, also HVT Level 2 of Pangasinan.
Lawmen implemented a warrant of arrest on Soriano issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Tita S. Obinario of Urdaneta City where he is facing cases for Illegal possession of firearm and ammunition and for violation of Republic Act 9165.
The body search on Soriano by the arresting officers yielded six transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu.
Both suspects were first brought to the Pozorrubio Police Station pending issuance of commitment order by the court of origin.
A separate case for violation of Section 11 of Article II of RA 9165 was filed against Soriano by the Baguio City Police Station before the Baguio RTC.
Suspects were initially brought to the Pozorrubio Community Hospital for physical and medical examinations and temporarily placed under the custody of the Pozorrubio police for subsequent presentation to the court that issued the warrant of arrest.
Later that day, the operatives of the joint police team again led by P/Chief Inspector Mina conducted a drug buy-bust operation at Arcangel St., Brgy Poblacion, Urdaneta City that resulted in the arrest of one Mary Jane Soriano, alias ‘Jing’, 43, a resident of Alipangpang, Pozorrubio and another HVT Level 2 in the province.
Soriano sold one heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing suspected shabu to an undercover policeman. (Leonardo Micua)
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