Suspected drug pusher slain in Calapan buy-bust

CITY OF CALAPAN – A suspected drug pusher was shot and killed by police in a firefight during a buy-bust operation in this city Saturday morning, police said.

The suspect, identified only as “Bisaya” from Batangas province, fired at policemen when he learned that the transaction he engaged in was a police sting in Sitio (sub-village) Bulalo in Barangay (village)
Balite at 12:35 a.m., Supt. Imelda Tolentino, Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) police information officer, said.

Tolentino said Bisaya “drew his carried firearm and shot the operatives which prompted them to return fire.” Bisaya died while being taken to the Oriental Mindoro Provincial Hospital.

Tolentino said Bisaya’s unknown companion escaped from the scene aboard a motorcycle, leaving him behind.

She said police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency operatives were able to buy two sachets containing white crystalline substance suspected to be “shabu” (crystal meth) worth P2,000 from the suspect.

Found in the area were a loaded caliber .45 gun, two pieces of empty fired cartridge for the same gun, three pieces of fired cartridge of caliber 9-mm pistol and one fired bullet, also for a caliber 9-mm.

Police also found five more sachets containing suspected shabu from the slain Bisaya./lb