Syndicate taps bus drivers, conductors
WAR VS. ILLEGAL DRUGS
THE GOVERNMENT’S war against illegal drugs is now being fought on the highways.
A drug syndicate has devised another surreptitious scheme to transport illegal drugs from Manila to Dagupan: Using public transport drivers and conductors as couriers.
This was confirmed after the driver and conductor of a passenger bus plying Dagupan – Manila daily route were arrested by joint police operatives and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on May 25 at a bus terminal on Perez Boulevard.
The suspects, Guengues Nieves, 40, bus driver from Barangay Fatima in Infanta; and his conductor Joel Munda, 31, of Barangay Bayambang, Infanta, however, denied being users and being involved in selling the drugs.
Agents of the PDEA and the Dagupan City Police, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and Provincial Investigation Branch of the Police Provincial Office seized from the suspects five medium-sized plastic sachets of shabu weighing about five grams.
The two had long been under surveillance as suspected couriers of illegal drugs.
Also seized from them was one piece of mailing envelope with markings, one piece of P1,000.00 bill, and boodle money, one brown paper bag with markings, and one cotton bag with markings.
Investigation, however, failed to determine how much the two earned as couriers.
The items were reportedly handed to the suspects by an unidentified person at their Manila terminal for pickup at the bus terminal in Dagupan by a still unknown person.
A case for violation of Section 5 in relation to Section 26 par b of Article 11 of Republic Act 9165 is now being readied for filling in court against the suspects.—LVM
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