SAN PEDRO CITY – Police said they found eight sachets of suspected “shabu” (crystal meth) from a suspected illegal drug pusher slain in a shootout in Sta. Cruz town in Laguna province on Friday.
Laguna police chief Sr. Supt. Eleazar Matta, in a text message, said police conducted the buy-bust around 3 a.m. in Barangay (village) Bagumbayan.
But during the transaction, the suspect, Dante Revolteado, alias “Bawang,” allegedly opened fire, prompting the gunfight.
The police recovered a .38-caliber gun from the suspect.
Revolteado was, so far, the second suspect, after Jon Jon Elca of Lumban town, to be killed in a police shootout, as the Laguna police conducted province-wide anti-drugs and anti-crime operations since Friday. Maricar Cinco/lzb