21 November 2005
Nab big-time drug pushers, shoplift gang in Alaminos
Alaminos City--A family of notorious drug pushers and members of a “salisi” gang were caught by the local police recently and now detained at the provincial jail.
Twenty-nine heat-sealed sachets of shabu weighing some 20.8 grams and other paraphernalia, 24 pairs of assorted pants, six pairs of short pants and seven pieces assorted bread were confiscated from the gang of shoplifters.
The three suspected drug pushers – one of them a “big timer” in the trade identified as Rolando “Iking” Bautista, from Pandayan St, Poblacion this city -- and six members of a gang of shoplifters from barangay Bulosan, San Carlos City were presented to the media during a press conference called by Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza at the city hall last Tuesday.
Rolando is the husband of Nena Bautista, once tagged as “shabu queen” of Alaminos and the region’s number 10 most wanted person, who is now confined at the provincial jail.
The two other drug pushing suspects caught were Noli Bautista, a brother of Rolando, and Lorna Bautista.
The alleged shoplifters were identified in the police report as Belinda Sampaga, 26; Edna Toledo, 21; Doris Ballesteros, 37; Rowena de Vera, 40, married; Agnes Bacani, 35, widow, all residents of Brgy. Bulosan, San Carlos City and Samuel Gonzales, 31, married, a resident of Brgy. Caingal, San Carlos City.
The two sets of suspects were charged for violation of R.A.9165 at the Prosecutor’s Office in criminal complaints number 4926-A and 4927-A respectively.
Braganza said police estimate the number of users and pushers here at more than 90. Fifty percent of shabu supplies in this town come from the Bautista group, long considered a “big time” group of pushers operating in western Pangasinan..
Braganza said drug users caught in the city government’s intensified anti-drugs campaign will be put under rehabilitation.
The late Alan de Guzman who was killed in barangay Seselangen, Sual town “was a victim of his own fame” the mayor said, in response to a question about the sensational highway shooting incident sometime ago. De Guzman is believed to have a romantic link with Nena Bautista
Confirming reports of an on-going “drugs war” in Pangasinan, Braganza said a deadly rivalry among drug dealers in their areas of operation -- of which the Bautistas were very much a part – and double cross among financiers and couriers, may have something to do with de Guzman’s death.
The mayor reiterated his call that regional trial courts should set up “special courts” to handle drug-related cases in order to speed up justice for the guilty and exoneration of the innocent.
He called the successful anti-crime operations a victory of the city, administration, PNP, 106th mobile group and POSO and barangay officials. (PIA/EMB)
Twenty-nine heat-sealed sachets of shabu weighing some 20.8 grams and other paraphernalia, 24 pairs of assorted pants, six pairs of short pants and seven pieces assorted bread were confiscated from the gang of shoplifters.
The three suspected drug pushers – one of them a “big timer” in the trade identified as Rolando “Iking” Bautista, from Pandayan St, Poblacion this city -- and six members of a gang of shoplifters from barangay Bulosan, San Carlos City were presented to the media during a press conference called by Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza at the city hall last Tuesday.
Rolando is the husband of Nena Bautista, once tagged as “shabu queen” of Alaminos and the region’s number 10 most wanted person, who is now confined at the provincial jail.
The two other drug pushing suspects caught were Noli Bautista, a brother of Rolando, and Lorna Bautista.
The alleged shoplifters were identified in the police report as Belinda Sampaga, 26; Edna Toledo, 21; Doris Ballesteros, 37; Rowena de Vera, 40, married; Agnes Bacani, 35, widow, all residents of Brgy. Bulosan, San Carlos City and Samuel Gonzales, 31, married, a resident of Brgy. Caingal, San Carlos City.
The two sets of suspects were charged for violation of R.A.9165 at the Prosecutor’s Office in criminal complaints number 4926-A and 4927-A respectively.
Braganza said police estimate the number of users and pushers here at more than 90. Fifty percent of shabu supplies in this town come from the Bautista group, long considered a “big time” group of pushers operating in western Pangasinan..
Braganza said drug users caught in the city government’s intensified anti-drugs campaign will be put under rehabilitation.
The late Alan de Guzman who was killed in barangay Seselangen, Sual town “was a victim of his own fame” the mayor said, in response to a question about the sensational highway shooting incident sometime ago. De Guzman is believed to have a romantic link with Nena Bautista
Confirming reports of an on-going “drugs war” in Pangasinan, Braganza said a deadly rivalry among drug dealers in their areas of operation -- of which the Bautistas were very much a part – and double cross among financiers and couriers, may have something to do with de Guzman’s death.
The mayor reiterated his call that regional trial courts should set up “special courts” to handle drug-related cases in order to speed up justice for the guilty and exoneration of the innocent.
He called the successful anti-crime operations a victory of the city, administration, PNP, 106th mobile group and POSO and barangay officials. (PIA/EMB)
