8 alleged drug personalities fall in Camarines Sur buy-busts

LEGAZPI CITY — Anti-narcotics agents arrested eight suspected illegal drug personalities, including a police officer, in separate drug operations in Naga City and Camaligan town in Camarines Sur province, a police report said Thursday.

In Naga City, police operatives nabbed Menardo Bongon, alias “Bong,” of Pili, Camarines Sur after selling a sachet of suspected “shabu” or crystal meth in Barangay (village) Sta. Cruz at around 3:11 p.m. Wednesday. Police also arrested Elizalde Pama, alias “Poto,” of Barangay Triangulo at around 9 p.m., also Wednesday, in a separate buy-bust.

Meanwhile Edgar Boquio, aka “Edgardo Archivido,” 32, and John Robert Campomanes, alias “Banono,” 27, both residents of Barangay Triangulo, Naga City, were held after selling a sachet of suspected shabu during a buy-bust in Barangay Peñafrancia at around 12:25 a.m. Thursday, police said.

In Camaligan, Police Officer 1 Jorge Dorero, 27, a resident of Lupi town, also in Camarines Sur, was caught having a pot session with Camaligan residents Wilbert Grejalvio, 38, Bethoven Alipante, 43, and Froilan Vergara, 35, of Barangay Bagumbayan, Naga City.

Police said Dorero is a member of the Lupi Municipal police station and is reportedly on absence without leave (AWOL).

The raiding team caught the suspects having a pot session at Grejalvio’s house at Barangay San Juan at around 11 a.m. Wednesday. Police officers also seized three medium size plastic sachets with suspected shabu, lighters and two pieces rolled aluminum foil. /muf