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PRESS RELEASE # 106/14 DATE : Mach 1, 2014 AUTHORITY : UNDERSECRETARY ARTURO G. CACDAC, JR., CEO VI Director General For more information, comments and suggestions please call: Director DERRICK ARNOLD C. CARREON, Director, Public Information Office Tel. No. 929-3244, 927-9702 Loc.131; Cell phone: 09159111585

PROVINCIAL JAIL GUARD, RESTAURANT OWNER FALL IN PDEA BUY-BUSTS

A provincial jail guard, assigned in Provincial Jail who is a suspected pusher, his live-in partner and a restaurant owner were arrested by anti-narcotics agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) during separate buy-bust operations in City and Tarlac City on February 27, 2014.

PDEA Director General Undersecretary Arturo G. Cacdac, Jr. identified the suspects as Jayson Perez y Carreon, 32 years old, provincial jail guard at Tarlac Provincial Jail, and his live-in partner, Marilyn Erese y Tan, 48; both residents of Brgy. Sitio Tuba, Matatalaib, Tarlac City, Tarlac; and Bolaw Jamal y Madji, 31, restaurant owner, a native of City, and presently residing at Mangin District, Dagupan City, .

At around 9:00 in the evening, elements of PDEA Regional Office 3 (PDEA RO3) under the direct supervision of Director Jeoffrey C. Tacio arrested Perez and Erese after they agreed to sell one heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet containing white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu to a PDEA agent who acted as poseur-buyer in Brgy. Sitio Suba, Matatalaib, Tarlac City, Tarlac.

The operation resulted in the confiscation of one piece of plastic sachet of suspected shabu, one black wallet, two cellular phones, assorted paraphernalia, one .38 caliber revolver with three live ammunition and two of P500 bills used as buy- bust money.

Perez and Erese will face charges for violation of Section 5 (Sale of Dangerous Drugs) in relation to Section 26 (Conspiracy to Sell Dangerous Drugs) and Section 11 (Possession of Dangerous Drugs), Article II, of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. Both will also face charges for violation of RA 10591 (Illegal Possession of Firearms and Explosives).

Meanwhile, on the same day, at around 3:10 p.m, operatives of PDEA RO1 under Director Adrian G. Alvariño conducted a buy-bust operation at Mangin District, Dagupan City, Pangasinan which resulted in the arrest of Jamal after he handed- over one piece of heat-sealed transparent plastic sachet of suspected shabu to a PDEA poseur-buyer.

Confiscated from his possession were 21 pieces of heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing white crystalline substance suspected shabu weighing approximately 75 grams and P1,000 bill used as marked money.

Seized pieces of drug evidence were brought to the PNP Crime laboratory for forensic examination.

Jamal will be charged for violation of Sections 5 and 11, Article II, of RA 9165.

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