Murder, drug suspects nabbed in Taguig, Pateros

FOUR people, three of them in most wanted lists in Pateros and Zamboanga del Sur, were arrested the other day in separate police operations in the southern part of Metro Manila.

Police reports reaching the Southern Police District identified those arrested as Jemar Bazar, Salde Caliso, Potenciano Caliso and Alex Lariosa.

Bazar and Salde Caliso ranked eighth and ninth, respectively, in the list of the most wanted personalities in Zamboanga del Sur, while Lariosa was eighth in the list of most wanted drug personalities in the municipality of Pateros.

According to the police, Bazar and the Calisos were the first to be arrested at 4 p.m., at a car wash shop in Barangay Central Signal Village, Taguig City.

Wanted for murder, they were apprehended by members of the Taguig police’s intelligence and warrant and subpoena sections based on warrants issued by Judge Jaime Caberte of Branch 23 of the Zamboanga del Sur Regional Trial Court.

The Taguig police were earlier tipped off about the suspects’ whereabouts by Chief Insp. Homer Dumalag, police chief of the Mahayag Police Station in Zamboanga del Sur.

Next to be arrested was Lariosa, 49, at 6:50 p.m. in Pateros. Senior Supt. Ernesto Tendero Jr., Pateros police chief, said Lariosa was arrested in a buy-bust operation near his house on E. Hermosa Street in Grimville Subdivision, Barangay San Roque.

“He did not resist arrest. Our men were able to arrest him within a short amount of time,” Tendero said.

He added that a sachet containing suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride or “shabu” was recovered from Lariosa whom the police official referred to as a “notorious” drug pusher who operated in Barangay San Roque.

According to Tendero, Lariosa was taken to the Pateros police station where he faces charges for violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act.