2 dead in Rizal shootout

SAN PEDRO CITY – Two suspected drug pushers were killed in separate police operations in Rizal province.

Rowel Acaso was slain in a shootout around 7 a.m. on Thursday in Barangay (village) Cupang in Antipolo City.

Members of the police intelligence unit implemented a search warrant on Acaso, issued by judge Agripino Morga of the regional trial court branch 28 to 32 in San Pablo City, Laguna, regional police spokesperson Supt. Chitadel Gaoiran said.

Acaso resisted arrest after police recovered a still undetermined amount of suspected “shabu” (crystal meth) and engaged law enforcers in a gunfight.

Another drug suspect Mark Bryant Lubaton was killed in a police shootout in Binangonan town.

The Rizal police, in its report, said Lubaton died in a buy-bust operation around 6 p.m. Wednesday in Barangay San Carlos. MARICAR CINCO