Samar’s one of the
most wanted drug pushers, nabbed
By GINA DEAN-RAGUDO,
Samar News.com
December
25, 2011
CALBAYOG CITY –
After months of surveillance, one of the most wanted drug pushers in Samar was arrested in a buy-bust operation by Calbayog
PNP elements through its Anti-Illegal Drug Special Operation Task Force
headed by Police Chief Inspector Elmer B. Cinco.
PO2 Jose Jay Senario
said that the sale or trading of suspected methamphetamine
hydrochloride or “shabu” between the pusher and the
PNP asset occurred at the vicinity of
Calbayog District
Hospital around 6 o’clock in the evening of December 24, 2011.
Immediately after the
transaction, a hot pursuit operation followed as the suspect run off
at once and he was caught at the vicinity of Our Lady of Porziuncola
Hospital, Inc. (OLPHI) after almost 40 minutes of chasing.
It was learned from
the security guards of OLPHI that the suspect under the name of
Fernando Prudente Sepeda went to the blood blank of said hospital to
buy blood for his patient who was confined at
Calbayog District
Hospital.
PCI Cinco and his men
in the presence of the media and Sangguniang Kabataan Chair conducted
a search on the person and belongings of Sepeda. They were able to
confiscate one (1) piece heat sealed sachet of suspected
methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu, three (3) pieces of one
thousand (P1,000) and twenty-five (25) pieces of five hundred pesos
(Php500.00), 1 piece fifty peso bill, two (2) pieces ten peso bill,
one (1) unit black Nokia cellular phone, the suspect’s motorcycle used
by him as his get-away vehicle and the five hundred (P500) peso bills
marked money.
The suspect,
Fernando Prudente Sepeda alias Totoy, 43 years old and resident of
Purok 3, Brgy. Matobato, Calbayog City was temporarily detained at
Calbayog PNP lock-up cell while waiting for an inquest proceeding.
