BALANGA CITY — A suspected drug pusher was slain by a combined team from the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in a buy-bust operation here Friday evening.
Supt. Byron Allatog, Balanga City police chief, said Ranilo Almario of Barangay Cataning in Balanga died after he tried to fight it out with government operatives after selling a sachet of shabu to a police-poseur- buyer.
“When suspect sensed that his buyer was a police officer, he drew his .45 revolver and shoot but the operating team retaliated and killed him,” reports showed.
Recovered from suspect were a .45 pistol with live ammunition, 18 medium size heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets of shabu and marked money.
The suspect was on board a white motorcycle during the buy-bust at 9:20 in the evening on a road at the back of the Bataan People’s Center.
