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Wednesday, July 09, 2003
2 drug pushers nabbed
By Fred P. Macaraeg
THE two suspected drug pushers arrested on Monday in separate buy-bust operations would likely further aggravate the problem of congestion at the Dagupan City jail.
Arrested by the city police operatives were Julieta Mario, married, and a resident of Sitio Puelay in Barangay Caranglaan, and Reynald Alvendia alias Bigtime, 17, a resident of barangay Poblacion Oeste.
Confiscated from Mario was a small plastic sachet containing crystalline granule believed to be shabu.
She denied, however, that she is a drug pusher. The suspect said she found the sachet at the back of their house where a wake was held.
Mario was purportedly lured into selling the stuff to earn money that she would use when she delivers her baby.
Seized from Alvendia, who has string of criminal cases, was a big plastic sachet. A frequent occupant of the city detention center, Bigtime may no longer be able to go out of jail despite still being of minor age.
The two will add to the 80 inmates detained due to illegal drugs at the city jail.
Insp. Roque Constantino Sison III, jail warden of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology said of the 80 inmates, 23 are female.
He said jail security has been tightened because of the increasing number of inmates due to the massive campaign against illegal drugs. There are now a total of 207 inmates at the jail, far above the ideal 150-inmate capacity.
Sison said they are conducting strict inspection of the things being brought to the detainees by their visitors "so that no contraband would make its way in to the hands of the inmates, some of who are drug pushers."
Admitting to have learned of the directive of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for the BJMP to adopt contingency measure on overcrowding jails, he said they have not yet received a memorandum from higher BJMP officers.
"But we are prepare to accommodate additional inmates," Sison said.
The jail warden said the detained drug pushers/users from other criminals, except the women and youth offenders.
(July 9, 2003 issue)
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