Thursday, August 19, 2004 School guard busted in shabu crackdown
THREE men, including a school security guard, were arrested in a raid yesterday dawn in Barangay Lorega, Cebu City for their alleged involvement in drug-related activities.
Police said the security guard, who is serving suspension for sleeping on the job, was engaged in selling illegal drugs to some students of a university in the city.
Security guard Efren Genobiagon and Archie Sacedor, of Barangay Lorega, and Chito Pondar of Barangay Lahug were arrested after they were caught in the act of sniffing shabu.
Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 7 were implementing a warrant to search the house of Wewe Adolfo in Sitio Lawis, Barangay Lorega.
Police applied for the search warrant after surveillance confirmed that Adolfo is into the illegal drug trade.
Supt. Ritchie Posadas, chief of the intelligence and operations section of CIDG 7, told reporters that Adolfo has been included in their order of battle against suspected drug pushers.
Level 2
Adolfo could reportedly dispose of as much as 200 grams of shabu weekly, making him fall under the level 2 category.
Adolfo, however, was not around when the CIDG 7 operatives implemented the search warrant.
During the raid, Genobiagon yielded a .38 caliber revolver and 12 live bullets.
In Adolfo’s house, police seized three medium-sized and seven small plastic packs of suspected shabu, assorted drug paraphernalia, a cell phone, an electronic weighing scale and P3,800 cash.
Genobiagon, however, claimed that it was he, and not Adolfo, who owned the house police were searching. He also said he owned the evidences confiscated.
Posadas, however, said that based on their surveillance, Genobiagon and Adolfo live in the same house.
Posadas also said that aside from Adolfo, Genobiagon is also involved into the illegal drug trade.
“He (Genobiagon) is reportedly engaged in selling illegal drugs to some of the students in the university,” Posadas said of Genobiagon, 33, a security guard of Tri-Star Security Agency.
Right-hand man
Posadas added that Genobiagon is even Adolfo’s “right-hand man.”
Genobiagon was detailed in one of the universities in Cebu City before he was placed on a one-month suspension last May for sleeping on the job.
(The name of the university is being withheld pending their side on the matter.)
Genobiagon denied the allegation saying he started selling shabu only in May. Genobiagon said he was detailed at the university for three years.
“That is not true. I don’t have student-clients. I did not sell drugs when I was still detailed in that school. That is prohibited by our security agency,” Genobiagon said in Cebuano.
Genobiagon said he resorted to selling shabu because he had to sustain the needs of his wife and two children.
He expected to repot back for work in June but he said he has not heard any word yet from his superior.
Proper charges will be filed against the three men and Adolfo. (JST)
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