Three drug suspects shot dead in Caloocan buy-bust operation

Three suspected drug pushers were killed in a buy bust operation in Barangay 93 in Caloocan City on Thursday, said a report on Unang Balita.

The Northern Police District identified the fatalities as brothers Ronald and Reagan Montoya, and one still unidentified suspect.

Senior Superintendent Johnson Almazan, chief of the Caloocan Police, said the cops conducted a buy-bust operation on the suspects.

He said the Montoya brothers shot at the police when they learned that the transaction was a sting operation.

Recovered from the victims were three firearms and a few sachets of suspected shabu.

Aurea Villaroman, the live-in partner of Reagan, said Ronald was not at their residence when the shooting happened.

She said the one who was killed along with Reagan and the still unidentified suspect was her brother Daniel Capampangan.

Villaroman said the other fatality did not live with them.

She admitted that Reagan and her brother used illegal drugs but said her live-in partner was not a pusher.

Villaroman added that Reagan already surrendered to authorities under Oplan Tokhang.

Barangay watchmen alleged that the Montoya household had been the subject of many complaints because it was being used as a drug den. —NB/KG, GMA News