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PANGASINAN

Cop exec faces raps

The deputy police chief of Mapandan town in Pangasinan province is facing administrative and criminal cases after shooting and wounding a fellow policeman inside the town’s police station on Saturday.

Senior Supt. Sterling Raymund Blanco, provincial police director, said he had also relieved Insp. Benigno Aquino Jr. from his position immediately after the incident. Aquino allegedly shot and wounded SPO1 Gil Solomon in the left leg at 11:45 p.m. on Saturday for no apparent reason.

Blanco said Aquino, who was drunk, arrived in the station that night shouting and looking for Solomon. “He went to the station’s third floor and there he found Solomon. Without any provocation, he shot him,” Blanco said.

Aquino surrendered to a police officer in Calasiao town. Gabriel Cardinoza, Inquirer Northern Luzon

PAMPANGA

Illegal drug traders

Police arrested two suspected illegal drug traders and recovered P3 million worth of “shabu” (methamphetamine hydrochloride) from them after a buy-bust operation in Limay town in Bataan province on Sunday.

Reports from the Central Luzon police headquarters in Camp Olivas said the personnel of the Regional Anti-Illegal Drug Special Operation Task Group and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency seized 10 plastic bags of shabu, with a total weight of about a kilogram, and a Kia Carens car from suspects Roldan Lakandula and Marlon Dizon in Barangay (village) Alangan, Limay.

Lakandula and Dizon are facing charges for violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.  Inquirer Central Luzon