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Saturday, May 28, 2005
Ex-drug cop critical after accidental firing
By Rex C. Otero
DAVAO CITY -- Efren Alcuizar, a former chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 12, is in critical condition after the gun tucked in a holster at his back accidentally fired Friday morning.
Initial police investigation showed that Alcuizar, with rank of senior superintendent, was about to sit down in a durian fruit stand in Barangay Tuban, Sta. Cruz in Davao del Sur Province when his gun accidentally fired, hitting him in the waist.
He was immediately rushed to the Davao Doctors Hospital where he has undergone an operation and is being monitored in the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU).
Sr. Insp. Danilo Obogon, Sta. Cruz municipal police office chief, said the owner of the fruit stand, where Alcuizar and his family were about to eat durian, said what happened was an accident.
According to the vendor, Alcuizar is a regular customer and ordered one durian but when he was about to sit down a gunshot rang out.
Alcuizar had two .45 pistols--one tucked in a holster on his waist and the other in his back.
Alcuizar served as chief of the Regional Anti-Narcotics Unit (Ranu) 11 based in Davao City for a long time before becoming the PDEA 12 director.
A month ago, Alcuizar was reassigned here in Region 11 to be Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte's assistant in the campaign against terrorism. However, the plan did not materialize.
Alcuizar is now reportedly on a "floating status" at the office of Police Regional Office 11 in Camp Catitipan.
Policemen prohibited the local media from entering the hospital.
(May 28, 2005 issue)
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