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The Weird Case of Ex-PDEA Officer and Marine Lt. Col. Marcelino DOJ finalizes preliminary probe on Lt. Col. Marcelino’s drug case shaina / March 12, 2016 / Local News, Trending Stories The DOJ has finalized its preliminary probe in the drug case filed against Lt. Col. Marcelino The department submitted its report for resolution after receiving the rejoinder of the suspect Marcelino faces cases for violating anti-drug laws and the Comelec gun ban The Department of Justice (DOJ) has finalized its preliminary investigation on the case of former Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) executive Lt. Col. Ferdinand Marcelino, who was arrested in an anti-illegal drugs raid last January. In an article written by Mark Merueñas for GMA News Online, it was disclosed that the DOJ has submitted its findings for resolution after it received the rejoinder coming from Marcelino for the cases filed by the Philippine National Police-Anti-Illegal Drug Group (PNP-AIDG) and the PDEA against the suspect. Marcelino, who once headed the PDEA’s Special Enforcement Service, is a member of the Philippine Marine Corps assigned as the superintendent of the Naval Officer Candidate School in San Antonio, Zambales when he was arrested. The military officer also claimed that he was working on a legitimate intelligence operation dubbed as “Oplan Moses”, which was allegedly sanctioned by the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) and the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP), despite not being part of the PDEA at the time of his arrest. However, the Malacanang Palace has denied the claims of Marcelino; saying there is no ongoing PAOCC operation that involves the officer. Last February, the PNP-AIDG filed additional cases against Marcelinoafter the police agency found out that the latter carried his personal firearm during the day of his arrest despite not possessing a gun banexemption permit from the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Moreover, the PNP also noted that the military officer’s permit to carry a personal firearm had already expired when he was arrested Domondon: The weird case of Ex-PDEA officer and Marine Lt. Col. Marcelino Wednesday, February 03, 2016 By BRICCIO CESAR DOMONDON JR. ALLEGATIONS of a conspiracy to destroy his reputation as a top drug buster seems to be the only remaining defense being raised by former Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Special Enforcement Services Officer and Marine Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand Marcelino in his attempt to explicate the reason for his presence and subsequent arrest at a shabu laboratory in a townhouse on Felix Huertas Street in Sampaloc, Manila late last month. As far as his reputation as a drug buster is concerned, his former boss ex-PDEA Chief Dionisio Santiago was all praises in telling the media how Marcelino campaigned aggressively, often times taking a hands on approach, in combating illegal drugs in the country and achieving as a feather on his cap the celebrated arrest of the so called “Alabang Boys”. Santiago went on further to vouch for Marcelino’s integrity as a fierce anti-drugs crusader but nevertheless admitted that the latter should be jailed if found guilty of involvement in the drug trade. The weird part in Marcelino’s case is why the heck was he inside the townhouse cum shabu laboratory when elements of the Philippine National Police Anti-Illegal Drugs Group (PNP-AIDG) along with members of the PDEA swooped down in the conduct of their surprise raid of the place. From a layman’s point of view isn’t it tactically safer and strategically better for an intelligence operative to conduct his surveillance and verification of a suspected drug den from a farther vantage point - say from a curtained window of an adjacent townhouse that provides a clear view of the shabu laboratory - than being in the exact place and premises where the drug den was located? What is weirder is that Marcelino along with a Chinese national who is reported to be a former interpreter for the PDEA was able to gain entrance to the townhouse cum shabu laboratory using a key to the front door. If Colonel Marcelino was indeed conducting his own personal surveillance of the said drug laboratory and was acting as a lone wolf in his campaign to combat illegal drugs he would have, as dictated by normal human behavior, had to have been more careful and stealthy in going about taking a peek or monitoring the place. Knowing that it was a clandestine drug laboratory and probably having armed men inside to protect the drugs manufactured Colonel Marcelino should have at the very least approach the place will all customary caution as an experienced PDEA officer and military man. But no, it would appear as if he just walked to the front door along with his Chinese national asset and using a key went inside the townhouse as if they owned the place. What is doubly weird is that Colonel Marcelino never disputed the claims of the PNP-AIDG that they were surprised that he was inside the townhouse when they conducted the raid. His only defense then was to claim that he was there to verify that there was a drug laboratory, that he was under orders from higher ups, and that someone was out to get him and destroy his reputation as a drug buster. The question that comes to mind is how can a celebrated top former officer of the PDEA and a Marine intelligence officer at that, with all of his knowledge on surveillance operations, be foolhardy enough to just enter a suspected drug laboratory without benefit of a back-up or at least some form of protection other than perhaps his belief that no one in the drug syndicate community knows him, and that he has the key to the place. Another question that has to be asked is if the claim of Colonel Marcelino is true that someone is really out to destroy his reputation as a drug buster as well as his advocacy against the drug trade, would it not have been more logical and practical for him, as an added precaution, to have conducted his verification in some other way or means other than going right into the suspected clandestine drug laboratory? Indeed, if there is any truth to his claim that there is a plot to destroy his reputation as a fierce advocate and aggressive campaigner against illegal drugs, Col. Marcelino can only blame himself for committing the error of being at the wrong place and at the wrong time. What a tragic and unfortunate turn of events to a famous and storied career in the never ending fight against the menace of illegal drugs in the country. Army certifies Marcelino as part of its intelligence network By: Perfecto T. Raymundo, Philippines News Agency January 26, 2016 7:11 AM Lt. Col. Ferdinand Marcelino after his arrest at a drug lab raid in Manila, 21 January 2016. TV5 SCREENSHOT InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 MANILA - The Philippine Army tells the Department of Justice (DOJ) that Lt. Col. Ferdinand L. Marcelino, an official of the Philippine Marines and a former official of the Special Enforcement Services of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), is part of the Army's Intelligence and Security Group. Marcelino was arrested in a drug bust operation in Sta. Cruz, Manila last week. The DOJ on Monday received a certification, dated 22 January 2016, from the Army's (PA) Intelligence and Security Group signed by Col. Marlo Guloy. The certification states that Marcelino was part of the intelligence information in the Intelligence and Security Group of the Philippine Army from November 2015 to December this year in connection with the suspected members of the Philippine Army, who were involved in the use of illegal drugs and other activities involving illegal drugs. It added that it was pursuant to the directive of the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Task Force Moses and the Philippine Army Task Group Midas. Marcelino last Friday asked for a preliminary investigation of his case to give him the opportunity to submit a counter-affidavit and pieces of evidence to prove that his presence in the said laboratory of illegal drugs in Sta. Cruz, Manila was a legitimate operation. Marcelino was arrested by the combined forces of the PDEA and the Philippine National Police-Anti-Illegal Drugs Group (PNP- AIDG) on site at the illegal drugs laboratory. A former official of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) was arrested along with a Chinese national in a drug bust operation Thursday which yielded P320 million worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride (“shabu”) at a house in Manila according to a report from Radyo Inquirer 990 AM. Based on the report, Col. Ferdinand Marcelino, former director of the Special Enforcement Services of PDEA and 33-year-old Yan Yi Shou, were arrested by operatives of PDEA and the Philippine National Police at Felix Huertas corner Batangas streets in Sta. Cruz, Manila. The operation was granted by an arrest warrant issued by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court which said that the house serves as a storage facility of illegal drugs. However, it turned out that it was a large-scale clandestine laboratory where the illegal drug is being made. PDEA Director General Arturo Cacdac Jr., in a radio interview with Good Morning Inquirer’s Arlyn dela Cruz and Jake Maderazo, said that based on initial reports, they were able to confiscate 64 kilograms of shabu. He said that Marcelino is considered as a suspect because he was caught with Shou during the operation. “Unfortunately he is a suspect, dahil present siya (because he was present) in a clandestine laboratory.
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