Tarlac City – – “Exemplary performance.”
Thus, said PNP Region 3 Director PCSupt Aaron Aquino on the recent killing of the “biggest shabu supplier in Cabanatuan City” by a police team led by PSupt Ponciano Zafra.
Aquino was referring to Ferdinand De Guzman Reyes, AKA Didoy, 35, of Barangay Magsaysay Sur, who was slain in an armed encounter with the police together with his companion Danilo De Jesus Llanes Jr, 40, from Barangay San Josef Norte, along the Vergara Highway, Barangay Bantug Norte, Cabanatuan City, early morning yesterday.
In a message to this writer, RD Aquino said, “I’ve been pressuring our chiefs of police to level up their operation against high value targets and this is an example of (an) exemplary performance of our personnel”.
Reyes is said to be one among the remaining “bigtime drug supplier” of Cabanatuan City.
Earlier Cabanatuan police chief Zafra disclosed, “we have been monitoring this Didoy since many of the (drug) pushers we have arrested points to him as their supplier like Candido Bernabe from whom we recovered almost ¼ kilo of shabu”.
Bernabe’s house was raided thru a court-issued Search Warrant by the police last August where 246 grams of shabu and assorted guns were seized.
Reyes and Llanes were killed in a bungled buy bust operation when they fired upon the policemen poseur buyers said Zafra.
Recovered by Zafra’s team were 429 grams of shabu contained in 7 clear plastic bags, a Glock 22 caliber .40 pistol with 9 bullets from Reyes and a Colt caliber .45 pistol with 6 live bullets and a small heat sealed plastic sachet of shabu was recovered from Llanes.
“The seized illegal drugs is the largest amount of shabu recovered from a single drug pusher in Cabanatuan City”, Zafra said in an interview.
RD Aquino also revealed that Zafra and his team of policemen involved in the armed encounter with Reyes will be conferred with an award for their “successful anti-drug operation”.
“Members of the operating (PNP) personnel will be awarded during the flag ceremony on Monday (December 12) at Camp Olivas”, said Aquino.
The armed encounter with Reyes and Llanes is the 5th “bloody anti-drug operation” led by Zafra himself.
Zafra and his men have so far been conferred with 2 merit medals from these armed encounters./Nelson Bolos; FB Tarlac News Center