PRO8 nabs student in buy-bust

By RPCRD, Police Regional Office 8
February 19, 2013

CAMP SEC. KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte – Instead of attending his classes in an academic institution, a college student will now be attending classes in a correctional institution as the Police Regional Office 8 (PRO8) stamped out his nefarious activities of selling illegal drugs.

“With the suspect’s arrest, his illegal drug trade will now be stopped and this will save his fellow students from falling prey to the illegal drugs menace,” said Police Chief Superintendent Elmer Ragadio Soria, PRO8 Regional Director.

The region’s top police official informed that at around 11:00 o’ clock on Saturday evening, joint elements of Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group of Leyte Police Provincial Office (LPPO-PAIDSTOG) and Palo Municipal Police Station led by Police Senior Inspector Jonathan Camacho and Police Senior Inspector Leo Laraga conducted buy-bust operation along the National Highway, Brgy. Guindapunan, Palo, Leyte resulting in the arrest of one Alchie Chiquillo y Albano, 23, single, student and a resident of Public Market site, Cavite East, Palo, Leyte.

“The suspect was immediately nabbed by police operatives posted strategically in the area after handing a sachet of suspected ‘shabu’ to an undercover cop who acted as poseur-buyer,” Soria added.

Recovered from the suspect’s possession and control were two P500 bills used as buy-bust money, two heat-sealed transparent sachet containing suspected “shabu” with an estimated street value of P10,000 and one unit Samsung mobile phone used in his illegal transactions.

Chiquillo was immediately brought to Palo Municipal Police Station for proper disposition while confiscated items were brought to the Regional Crime Laboratory Office 8 for quantitative examination.

Soria added that cases for violations of Sections 5 and 11 (selling and possession of illegal drugs) of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Drugs Act of 2002 is now being prepared for filing against the suspect.