POLICE FILES
PDEA IN LAPU-LAPU
Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza requested the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Central Visayas to install a satellite office in their city to help solve the rampant illegal drug trade last Wednesday.
Radaza said the Lapu-Lapu Police Office could not address the city’s drug problems alone and would need the PDEA-7 agents to augment the city’s police force.
Also, the mayor called for a random drug testing on city policemen and City Hall employees.
Last year, five City Hall employees were terminated for testing positive for drugs./Correspondent Fe Marie D. Dumaboc
BOY HANGS DEAD
A 15-year-old boy was found hanging dead inside their house in sitio Lupot, barangay Tomijao, Daanbantayan town, northern Cebu, last Wednesday.
A nylon rope was tied around the neck of Neil John Pepito with the other end tied on the roof beam when he was discovered by his brother Rogen past 5 p.m.
Police said Neil John skipped lunch after his mother Ginda whipped him with a bamboo stick around noon. He and his younger sister fought over who should do the laundry.
Neil John was brought to a hospital but did not make it alive.
Police said there was no foul play on Neil John’s death./ REPORTER RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL
DRUG BUST
A suspected drug pusher was arrested by police in barangay Lorega, Cebu City, during a buy-bust operation Wednesday night.
Police said 20 packs of suspected shabu were recovered from the possession of Joven Dequitos after he sold a pack to a police poseur buyer.
Police said they conducted a surveillance in the area after they received a tip of rampant illegal drug trade.
Aside from Dequitos, eight other persons, including a minor, were arrested after they were caught sniffing suspected shabu inside drug den.
They were later identified as Adora Soco Tapales, Nino Singson Pafecon, Joseph Megabonaballe, Reynante De La Torre Rodriguez, Oliver Apanes Reyes, Jay Brizo Ugsang, a certain Junjun and a minor./correspondent chito aragon