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Monday, September 15, 2003
7 busted in separate pot sessions
By Tomas S. Noda III
SAN FERNANDO -- Six alleged drug users and a suspected shabu pusher were not able to get as "high" as they wanted to be when police and barangay officials ruined their pot sessions in two separate anti-illegal drug operations.
San Fernando police chief Nicanor Targa identified the suspected drug pusher as Ryan Soliman Ocampo, 19, single, of Barangay Quebiawan.
Targa said Ocampo was arrested along with three alleged drug users after selling one plastic sachet of shabu to a poseur buyer.
Ocampo's companions were identified as Virgilio Dela Cruz Rivera, 34; Efren Trinidad Ocampo, 47, both married, also of Barangay Quebiawan; Sonny Zaratan, 25, single, of Sta. Trinidad in Angeles City.
Targa said a separate anti-illegal drug operation conducted by barangay officials in Sta. Teresita also resulted in the arrest of three other suspected drug users caught having a pot session.
The three suspects were identified as Robert Gonzales, 19, single, of Moras Dela Paz in Sto. Tomas town; Ramil Santillan, 26, single, of Ponduan in San Jose here; and Dionisio Ramirez, of Barangay Sta. Teresita.
According to reports, the suspects in Barangay Sta. Teresita were the first to be arrested over the weekend around 1:15 a.m. by barangay councilmen Nelson Feliciano Cruz and Melchor Lapira Cuellar along with Bantay Bayan Officers Arturo Antonio, Rey Santos, Felizardo Sadsad and Ronald Pineda.
The village officials confiscated drug paraphernalia and a 9-inch improvised knife from Gonzales' possession.
Two days later, Targa supervised a drug entrapment operation in Barangay Quebiawan, where they busted Ocampo's group in the middle of a drug session along the so-called "abandoned road" area.
Insp. Franciso Palma, who led the buy-bust operation, confiscated seven plastic sachets of shabu and other drug paraphernalia from the four suspects and 11 more sachets atop a wooden dining table.
Targa commended his team of police officers especially the village officials in Barangay Sta. Teresita for helping curb the drug menace in the city.
(September 14, 2003 issue)
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