P20M shabu seized
from slain suspect
by Miriam G. Desacada
Tacloban City–Packs of shabu, estimated to be worth P20 million, was confiscated by police authorities from the possession of a suspected drug dealer who was killed during a buybust operation dawn of Monday (May 15) at Barangay Tambulilid, Ormoc City, about five kilometers north of the city’s central area.
The shabu, estimated to weigh a total of more than a kilo was found, along with drug paraphernalia, inside an eco-bag the suspect owned.
Scene of the Crime Operations (SOCO) investigators also recovered the four packs of shabu and the P100,000 cash used in the buy bust. During the inspection of the cadaver at the morgue, they also found seven more packs of shabu from the sling bag of the killed suspect.
The slain suspect was identified as Allan Bulahan, alias Allan Tigbas Gorio, a resident of Purok 1 of Barangay Linao, an adjacent barangay of Tambulilid that is about five kilometers north of the city’s central area.
Police operatives, at about 1 a.m. Monday, using a poseur-buyer, first bought from Allan shabu packs worth about P100,000. When the suspect sensed he was dealing with an undercover policeman, he immediately fought back and fired at the authorities, but was subdued and killed as a result.
SOCO investigators recovered from the crime scene 12 spent shells of bullets from guns of various caliber, and from the pistol near the arm of the neutralized suspect.
Police/Colonel Nelvin Ricohermoso, director of the Ormoc City Police Office (OCPO), said that Allan Tigbas was the source of shabu of other suspected shabu dealers, arrested earlier, Madame Lyca and Erwin Apuya.
The buybust operation against Allan Tigbas was initiated by the Regional Drug Enforcement Unit in coordination with the OCPO.
Meanwhile in an earlier drug buy bust operation around 3:00 in the morning, a public school teacher in Mc Arthur Leyte Ian Aaron O. Orabe was arrested.
PDEA 8 regional public information officer said that the operatived successfully confiscated from the suspect thirteen (13) pcs sachets of suspected shabu weighing 2 grams with an estimated market value of Php13,600.00.
Orabe has been in surveillance for one month before he was arrested.
In in inquest proceedings a criminal case in violation of Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2022, has already been filed against the teacher.