8 killed, including 1 cop in Caloocan anti-drug operations

 

Seven drug suspects and one police operative were killed in separate anti-drug operations in Caloocan City on Thursday night.

GMA News' Victoria Tulad reported on Unang Balita that the Caloocan Police conducted "Oplan Sama-Sama," the city's anti-drug campaign project, in three barangays.

Three suspects were killed in a shootout in Barangay 93 at about 11:30 p.m., the report said.

Police identified the fatalities as brothers Ronald and Reagan Montoya, and the third was yet to be identified,  the report said.

Caloocan Police chief Senior Superintendent Johnson Almazan 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.

But Aurea Villaroman, the live-in partner of Reagan, said Ronald was not at their residence during the supposed shootout. 

She said the one who was killed along with Reagan and the still unidentified man 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.

In the police operation in Baragay 20, two drug suspects, identified as Julian "Ipe" Daita "Ipe" and alias Garry, were killed while three were arrested. Two of those arrested were women, according to Unang Balita.

Police said the suspects were on the barangay drug watch list.

Meanwhile, two drug targets and a police personnel were killed in the anti-drug operation in Barangay 178, according to the television report. —LBG, GMA News