Paniqui, Tarlac – – New pusher in town?
This came as one among the so-called “new big time” drug personality was arrested in a raid at his house at Barangay Poblacion Sur yesterday morning by the personnel of the Tarlac Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (Tarlac-CIDG).
Among others, around 15 grams of shabu with an estimated street value of P247,000, a homemade rifle, live ammos and a digital micro weighing scale was confiscated from the house of Norberto Ramos who is described by a police asset as a new pusher in their neighborhood but is a native of this town .
In his report, PCInsp Jerrold Jake Manguerra, Tarlac CIDG provincial officer, identified the apprehended drug personality as Norberto Ramos, 47, of Barangay Poblacion Sur.
“When we received reports of Ramos’ ‘big time’ drug dealing, we immediately focused on him. He is not a lowly pusher. He deals by the grams, by the bulk, not by small retail-size sachets”, said Manguerra.
(A retail size P500-sachet of shabu weighs around .030 gram. A gram of shabu is usually repacked into 33, or more, P500 worth sachets.)
Maguerra also disclosed that Ramos is among the “new network” of drug dealers who replaced the “old” group of pushers who most of them were already arrested or neutralized from the police’s intensive campaign against drugs.
In an interview, Ramos claim he began using shabu only last year.
Ramos also said that his supplier, whom he named as “Pogi,” is from Bulacan and regularly delivers to him the shabu on a consignment basis.
The raid on Ramos’ house was based on the Search Warrant issued by Judge Ronald Leo Haban of Tarlac Regional Trial Court Branch 66
Ramos was charged of violation of section 11 of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act (RA 9165) and illegal possession of firearms.
Under the law, possession of more than 5 grams of shabu is a non-bailable offense.
The CIDG team was assisted by the Tarlac Public Safety Company (PPSC) commanded by PSupt Samuel Munoz