MASINLOC, Zambales — A suspected drug pusher was killed after he fired his gun at the police poseur-buyer he was dealing with in a drug sting at Pulangui Road, Barangay Taltal here.
Zambales Police Provincial Office (ZPPO) director Col. Ponce Rogelio Peñones, Jr., identified the suspect as Nestor Divino y Zapanta, 40, resident of Barangay Baloganon, Masinloc town. The suspect was in the police drug watchlist.
Reports said joint elements of the Masinloc Municipal Police Station led by its chief, Major Jude Bryan B. Maguddayao, and Zambales 1st Provincial Mobile Force Company were conducting anti-illegal drug operation in Barangay Taltal, when the suspect upon realizing that the buyer was an undercover policeman fired his gun, hitting the upper left abdomen of the poseur-buyer but who was wearing a bullet proof vest.
The back-up arresting officers fired back, hitting suspect in the body that resulted to his death.
The Zambales Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) recovered one .38 revolver with defaced serial number loaded with three live ammunition and three fired cartridges cases; three fired cartridges cases of 9mm; three deformed fired bullet; 12 heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing white crystalline substance.
