OLONGAPO CITY – Two suspected drug pushers were killed, even as one cohort eluded arrest in separate anti-drug operations by the Olongapo City Police Office (OCPO) in Barangays Cabalan and East Tapinac here.
OCPO city director Col. Benjamin Sembrano identifi ed the fatalities as Miguel Gumera y Angeles, resident of Forestry, Barangay Old Cabalan; and one known only as “Bait” of Afable Street, Barangay East Bajac-Bajac, both in this city.
A certain Joven Dela Fuente y Gatus, 19, of No. 12th Street, Barangay Pag-Asa, reported to be a cohort of Bait escaped during the operations and is now being hunted by the city police.
Report said Gumera sensed he was selling sachet of shabu to a poseur-buyer, Police Staff Sergeant Ace Alba and drew his .38 revolver and shot the cop twice on his chest but was saved by his bullet-proof vest. ring a bullet vest.Alba’s companion, a Staff Sergeant Magloyuan retaliated, hitting the suspect in different parts of his body killing him on the spot.
Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) recovered a .38 revolver loaded with four live ammunitions and two fired cartridges, two 9mm empty shells, a belt bag, six heatsealed transparent plastic sachets of shabu, three .38 revolver live ammunitions, P500 marked money, a cellphone, and assorted drug paraphernalia.
In Barangay East Tapinac drug suspect Bait also drew a .38 revolver in the midst a drug sale and fired at poseur-buyer Police Staff Sergeant Junie Rose Bonilla who is wearing bullet vest. Police back up Patrolman Rubin Yusi lll retaliated, hitting suspect on the chest and head and killed him on the spot.
Recovered at the crime scene were one .38 revolver, one fired .38 cartridges, a body bag, six .38 cartridges, a coin purse, seven heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets of shabu, P500 marked money, and assorted drug paraphernalia.
Report added that the fatalities were in the drug watch list of the city police.
