High school teacher killed in Vizcaya drug bust

CITY OF ILAGAN— A high school teacher was shot dead in a drug bust in Solano town, Nueva Vizcaya province on Friday.

Rogelio Andres was killed by policemen after he allegedly opened fire at an undercover agent to whom he sold a sachet of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) in Barangay (village) Curifang, according to Laurefel Gabales, Cagayan Valley regional director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).

Andres had been on the PDEA drug watch list since 2016, Gabales added.

Seized from Andres were two sachets of suspected shabu worth P1,000, a motorcycle, a Cal. 38 revolver, four bullets and two spent bullet cartridges. GAL