PDEA, PNP nab notorious drug dealer
INTENSIFIED ANTI-DRUG OPERATIONS
A NOTORIOUS drug dealer and a prime suspect in the killing of policeman in San Carlos City is now behind bars after a successful joint operation of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-Pangasinan) and Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS).
Wilbert Castro, 36, aka Toking, a native of Barangay Paitan, San Carlos City, was arrested early morning of January 23, when the operatives of the DCPS and PDEA raided a rented house in Malta Village in Malued District to serve a search warrant.
Castro was caught in possession of six small heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing shabu, open small plastic sachet containing shabu residue, two tube tooter, one improvised water pipe tooter, four pieces used strip aluminum foils, one weighing scale and shabu paraphernalia, two caliber .45 pistols with magazine containing bullets, one rifle propellant grenade and one hand grenade.
A case of violation of illegal possession of illegal drugs of Republic Act 9165 (Dangerous Drugs Act), illegal possession of firearms, ammunitions and explosives (Republic Act 10591) was filed against Castro who is now jailed at BJMP Dagupan City.
P/Superintendent Jandale Sulit, Officer-in-Charge at the DCPS, said Castro is one of the suspects in the killing of PO2 Jimbo Agtarap, an intelligence officer of the San Carlos City Police Station, last September 2017.
Sulit said the Dagupan police has intensified operations against illegal drugs with PDEA to keep the city drug–free.
“We are constantly updating whereabouts of those who surrendered including those who completed the drug rehab program in the city,“ Sulit said.
He admitted that in the recent operations of illegal drugs in Dagupan, all the involved arrested suspects were among those who surrendered.
Aside from the accounting for all 1,313 drug pushers and users that surrendered, the previous hotbed of illegal drugs, Sitio Silungan and Sitio Aling will remain to be closely watched, Sulit stressed.
“We continuously monitor the situations in those places, gathering and validating information from sources about cases of resurgence of drug trading which have been minimal so far, with the help of our community and different agencies and the city government. (Nora Dominguez)
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