18 October 2005
Top Rosales drug pusher slain
ROSALES – Authorities here believe a drugs war may have just erupted here with the gunslaying of a known drug pusher and user on General Luna st. in Poblacion last Oct. 9
Dead o n the spot where he was shot by armed men on an Enduro motorcycle was Jose Minia III, 25, of baranagy Station District here.
Police intelligenc e sources pointed to the killing as a liquidation job by Minia’s comrades in the drugs trade possibly due to non-remittance of proceeds from illegal sale
of the banned substances.
Police officials predict Minia’s death may have just sparked a drugs war among those involved in drug trafficking here. Rosales has often been reported as a transshipment point of illegal drugs, being located at the crossroad between east and west and north and south.
Several drug personalities have already been arrested by the police in the past but the illicit trade appears to persist.
Mayor Ricardo Revita, himself an awarded former police officials in the province, has launched a cleanup of police characters in this town and put some order in the once chaotic traffic terminal at barangay Carmen, the crossroad barangay, of the town where many petty crimes were recorded in the past.
Dead o n the spot where he was shot by armed men on an Enduro motorcycle was Jose Minia III, 25, of baranagy Station District here.
Police intelligenc e sources pointed to the killing as a liquidation job by Minia’s comrades in the drugs trade possibly due to non-remittance of proceeds from illegal sale
of the banned substances.
Police officials predict Minia’s death may have just sparked a drugs war among those involved in drug trafficking here. Rosales has often been reported as a transshipment point of illegal drugs, being located at the crossroad between east and west and north and south.
Several drug personalities have already been arrested by the police in the past but the illicit trade appears to persist.
Mayor Ricardo Revita, himself an awarded former police officials in the province, has launched a cleanup of police characters in this town and put some order in the once chaotic traffic terminal at barangay Carmen, the crossroad barangay, of the town where many petty crimes were recorded in the past.
