Police looking for Johnson Lee, suspected drug lord in questioned Pampanga raid

Authorities are now looking for Johnson Lee, the suspected drug lord whom Pampanga policemen allegedly allowed to flee after a drug raid that yielded hundreds of kilos of shabu in late 2013.

According to Mariz Umali's report on "24 Oras", Lee still could not be arrested because no charges had been filed against him.

He is said to be a Korean citizen.

"May lumabas na Johnson Lee last June 2019. Di pa sigurado kung siya yun," said Police Colonel Jean Fajardo, the police provincial director in Pampanga.

As regards the chances of locating Lee, Fajardo said, "Difficult in the sense na ini-expect na natin na magtatago yan."

"Malaki possibility na nakalabas na ng bansa lalo alam niya marami na naghahanap sa kanya," Fajardo said.

The drug raid on Lee's residence in Pampanga is now the center of the Senate investigation on the alleged irregularities committed by Pampanga police officers then under Oscar Albayalde, the provincial director at the time of the questioned operation.

Then Superintendent Rodney Baloyo and 12 other police officers were suspected of declaring that they only confiscated 38 kilos of shabu when they actually allegedly seized 200.

Lee was reportedly allowed to flee in exchange for P50 million.

A Ding Wenkun was nabbed and presented as the drug lord behind the raided Pampanga drug operation. Also charged was Roel Cabag, who was arrested with Wenkun.

The Pampanga Regional Trial Court dismissed for lack of sufficient evidence the drug charges against Wenkun and Cabag on March 27, 2018.

The court didn't give credence to the police's claim that they were arrested due to a buy-bust operation.

Wenkun was freed on April 17, 2018. Cabag has since died due to acute coronary syndrome. —NB, GMA News