Two killed, ex-cop held in QC drug busts

Two buy-bust operations conducted by the Quezon City police on Monday led to the death of two drug suspects in an alleged shootout and the three arrest of four others, including a former policeman.

Based on police reports, members of the Batasan police station shot it out with two men identified only by their aliases Bibi Macawili and Kosa Iglesia following an entrapment operation in Barangay Old Balara around 11:15 p.m.

Recovered from the slain pair were seven sachets of “shabu” (methamphetamine hydrochloride) and two firearms.

In another buy-bust operation conducted at 12:30 p.m. in a hotel on Edsa by the District Special Operation Unit and District Anti-Illegal Drugs-Special Operation Task Group, three people were arrested.

Shirley Mae Layog, 24; Ruby Turingan, 36 and Mark Oliver Puriran, 27, were taken into custody after they sold P12,000 worth of shabu to an undercover policeman. The trio also yielded six sachets containing traces of shabu and drug paraphernalia.

According to a report submitted to Chief Supt. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, Quezon City Police District director, Puriran told operatives during interrogation that they got their drug supply from Allan Tuparan, a former policeman.

A follow-up operation at 2 p.m. resulted in the arrest of Tuparan at a motel in Cubao.

Tuparan, 34, was formerly assigned with the Regional Public Safety Battalion of the National Capital Region Police Office.

He was dismissed from the service in January after he reportedly went Awol (absent without official leave) in 2014. —JHESSET O. ENANO