LEGAZPI CITY –– A police officer and his girlfriend were arrested in a search operation in Daet town in Camarines Norte province on Wednesday morning.
Lieutenant Colonel Chito Oyardo, Daet police chief, said Police Senior Master Sergeant Jacky Palomar, 40, assigned at the 2nd Police Mobile Force Company of the province, and Mylene Delos Reyes, 29, were arrested in Barangay Magang at 11:45 a.m.
Oyardo said they were identified as members of the “Rey Gutierrez Drug Group” operating in the province.
Confiscated were 50 grams of suspected shabu (crystal meth) worth P350,000, a caliber 9mm with 15 live bullets, and a stolen Toyota Hilux vehicle.
“He was under surveillance after previously arrested drug personalities identified his involvement in the group,” Oyardo added.
Palomar was allegedly protecting the operation of the group, causing other anti-illegal drug operations in the province to be compromised, Oyardo said.
Palomar was separated from his legal wife and now living at the house of Delos Reyes.
He has been in service with the Philippine National Police for 18 years.