Cabanatuan City – – Mga pushers sira ulo. Hindi takot makulong, hindi takot mamatay.
This was the stern comment of PSupt Ponciano Zafra on the arrest of 3 drug pushers from whom P 2.03 Million worth of shabu was confiscated yesterday.
In his report to Nueva Ecija Police Director PSSupt Danilo Yarra, arrested in separate entrapment operations were Jerico De Guzman y Mateo, a.k.a. JERIC, 40 years old, of Ramirez St., Brgy. Aduas Sur, Harold Harvey Cruz, 38, of Barangay Kapitan Pepe, and Jeric Dominguez y Billion, 25of Brgy Paliko 4, Imus, Cavite.
Confiscated from De Guzman were around 152 grams of shabu and a digital micro weighing scale while from Cruz were 4 sachets (3.59 grams).
Dominguez, who was nabbed in YUPPY’S Den Bar, beside NE Pacific Mall, along the Maharlika Highway in Barangay Concepcion, was apprehended with 5 sachets of the methamphetamine hydrochloride weighing 13.29 grams.
Cruz is said to be a mere user but lately turned to peddling drugs.
Based from Philippine Drug Enforcement Administration (PDEA) street value of illegal drugs, shabu is valued P12,000 per gram. (The 608 kgs of shabu recently seized by Bureau of Customs chief Nicanor Faeldon was valued P6.4 Billion)
In all, the 168.74 grams of shabu confiscated from De Guzman and 2 others have a street value of P2.03 Million.
Apparently, Dominguez has already delivered most of the illegal drugs he brought from Cavite before he was entrapped.
“Sa aming walang tigil na anti-illegal drugs operations, halos araw-araw may nahuhuli kaming pusher o user. Pero marami pa rin ang patuloy na gumagamit at nagbebenta ng shabu. Para nga yatang mga sira ulo ang mga addict sa shabu. Hindi sila takot makulong, hindi rin sila takot mamatay”, said Zafra.
Since July 11, last year, 372 persons involved in illegal drugs were already arrested in this city.
“When we started our relentless campaign against illegal drugs last year, almost all the known pushers were already arrested, some died in armed encounter, and some left the city. But new pushers appear. Maybe because there are still large amount of shabu from outside Cabanatuan. Hangga’t may supply meron at meron magtutulak at bibili”, Zafra added./ Nelson Bolos