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Nine suspects nabbed in buy-bust ops in QC


A former detainee and his live-in partner, whom police both tagged as notorious drug peddlers, were among the nine suspects apprehended in separate buy-bust operations in Quezon City last week.

Alvin Malaluan alias "Idoy", 42, and his partner Mary Jane Navalta alias "Jane", 36, were arrested along a busy street in the wee hours of Tuesday after they allegedly sold P25,000 worth of shabu.

Police Captain Dennis Francisco, chief of the Novaliches Police Station Drug Enforcement Unit, said that aside from Malaluan and Navalta, five more individuals arrived at the scene apparently to order shabu from the targets of the buy-bust sting.

When the police asset and a patrolman who posed as a buyer arrived at the area, they immediately transacted with Malaluan.

Francisco said that it was Navalta who accepted from the decoy police the P25,000 buy-bust money in exchange for the five grams of shabu.

Shortly after the buy-bust operation was done, the raiding team together with GMA News then proceeded to an open parking lot along Ramirez Street in front of a hospital in Barangay Novaliches Proper.

Confiscated from the suspects was a big sachet of shabu that was purchased and the buy-bust money.

Operatives of the SDEU and the Intelligence Branch of the same station also cornered and arrested Benigno Bacsa, 34, from Caloocan City who told GMA News that he was there not for drugs but for another purpose.

The other four suspects were identified as Anna Luna Alegre, 26; Richmond Joseph Ramos, 21; Mark de Guzman, 39; and Jeral Ones, 22.

They admitted to using drugs but denied they were involved in peddling drugs.

Police Lieutenant Colonel Rossel Cejas revealed that Malaluan served his jail term for drug cases while Navalta was a surrenderee of adjacent Barangay San Agustin also in Quezon City.

"Ito ang nakakalungkot dahil itong mag-live-in partner ay matagal nang target ng istasyon dahil palaging na i-infotext tungkol sa kalakaran nila ng droga. Nakulong na ang isa habang sumurrender sa barangay nila 'yung isa pero bumalik din sa droga," Cejas added.

Barangay Sauyo

Meanwhile, in another buy-bust sting also conducted by SDEU operatives in Barangay Sauyo, the raiding team collared Emard Alunday, 39, a person with disability, who is apparently the target of the operation.

Holding a walking cane, Alunday was not able to evade arrest but his cohort did.

Sotero Apolonio, 35, managed to get away and led police on a chase along the street. He was eventually captured.

Apolonio had bruises and deep wounds all over his face after he bumped his head on a cemented floor.

Alunday declined an interview when asked by GMA News.

Apolonio on the other hand admitted that he uses drugs but has never been involved in peddling it.

All nine suspects who are facing drug charges are already detained at the Novaliches Jail facility. —KG, GMA News