Three suspects were caught in Boracay Island on January 26 in a police drug buy-bust operation.
Police Officer 3 Eric Deocampo, case investigator, identified the suspects as 46-year old Melchor Saron from Tagbaya, Ibajay, Aklan; Jose Salvador Timoteo Cahilig, 33, from Poblacion, Ibajay, Aklan and their 42-year old female companion Jeneveve Canja from Diclum, Tobias Fornier, Antique.
Canja sold a sachet of suspected shabu in exchange for P1,000 marked money from a poseur buyer at around 9 p.m. in her boarding house in Sitio Bulabog Extension in Barangay Balabag.
During the buy-bust operation, police also seized four suspected sachets from Saron while Cahilig was arrested inside the room of the boarding house identified as a drug den.
Also recovered were three pieces of rolled aluminum foil and disposable lighters inside the room.
Canja told the police that they got their drugs from a supplier in Sitio Hagdan in Barangay Yapak and their clients remitted payments from illegal drug trade through a remittance center.
The suspects were brought to Kalibo, Aklan by operatives of Aklan Provincial Anti-Illegal Drug Special Operation Task Group (PAIDSOTG) after the buy-bust operation.
The suspects will be facing charges for violations of Sections 5 (selling of drugs), 6 (maintenance of a den) and 11 (illegal possession of drugs) of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
The operation was conducted by PAIDSOTG, Boracay Tourist Assistance Center, Malay municipal police station, Aklan Provincial Public Safety Company, Maritime Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).
BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
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