Woman falls in entrapment after extorting cash from police applicants
TACLOBAN CITY — A woman accused of extorting money from police applicants was arrested in an entrapment operation on Friday afternoon.
Cherie Pulga, 36, and a resident of Barangay Campetik in Palo town, Leyte was caught in the act of accepting fake money from a police applicant.
Brigadier General Rommel Bernardo Cabagnot, police regional director, said that the operation against the suspect was carried out after they received several complaints from police applicants that she was offering her services by assuring her victims of slots to the police organization in exchange of P20,000.
It is not clear yet as to how many police applicants have been victimized by the suspect who is now detained at the Palo municipal police station.
Cabagnot said the police organization does not tolerate illegal activities, saying entering the organization is based on qualification.
