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Volume IX, No. 146
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Villar backs Duterte’s Plan to ban plastic use By FILANE MIKEE CERVANTES PNA
MANILA – The chairperson of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources on Friday backed President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent pronouncement regarding the possibility of a nationwide ban on the use of plastics. Senator Cynthia Villar said the possible ban is urgent as she cited a 2015 report on plastic pollution by the international group Ocean Conservancy and McKinsey Center for Business and Environment showing that the Philippines is one of the world’s largest producers of plastic wastes that end up in the ocean. “With the President taking the lead in this campaign, I am confident we will be making significant See PLAN, page 11
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PNP-11 reports P1.7-M drug haul in October By RHODA GRACE SARON PNA
DAVAO CITY -- The Police Regional Office in Davao Region (PRO-11) has reported that its intensified campaign against illegal drugs has led to a total drug haul of PHP1.7 million in October alone. Brig. Gen. Filmore Escobal, PRO-11 director, said the figure is higher compared to the PHP1.3 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs in the previous month. According to the report, police units around the region arrested 171 drug personalities in October: 110 from Davao City; 29 from Davao del Norte; 23 from Davao Oriental; and nine in Davao del Sur. Nine individuals also died in the period after they engaged authorities in shootouts during law enforcement operations. Es cobal added that PRO-11 also recovered 486 sachets of shabu and 24 packs of marijuana during buy-busts, and search and checkpoint operations. See DRUG, page 11
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Target-listed pusher, 2 others nabbed in GenSan By RICHELYN GUBALANI PNA
GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Police and anti-drug operatives arrested a target-listed pusher and two other drug personalities in separate operations in two villages here on Wednesday night. Naravy Duquiatan, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 12 (Soccsksargen), said in a report on Friday that the suspects were nabbed in an entrapment
and follow-up operation in barangays Labangal and Tambler. Duquiatan said a joint team from PDEA-12 and the city police station number 2 arrested tricycle driver Jemar Aradais Pulalon, 35, at about 6:20 p.m. in the vicinity of Purok Pandian, Labangal after selling a sachet of suspected shabu worth PHP1,000 to an undercover operative. In a subsequent search, the suspect, who was in-
cluded in the target list of PDEA-12, yielded two more sachets of shabu, weighing about 1.5 grams with an estimated street value of PHP10,200, she said. In coordination with the local police, Duquiatan said they launched a follow-up operation at about 8:30 p.m. at a house in Purok Diamond, Tambler against Pulalon’s alleged shabu supplier, identified as Joey Juario. She, however, said the
suspect managed to escape after reportedly seeing the approaching operatives. The operating team arrested the owner of the house, identified as businessman Edwin Bernardino Gacote II, 32, and a companion, street vendor Norsalyn Agsak Pulalon, 25, after allegedly being caught in possession of suspected shabu and drug paraphernalia. “They were found having See NABBED, page 11
SHABU. Law enforcers arrest a target-listed pusher and two other drug personalities in separate operations in two villages in General Santos City on Wednesday night (Nov. 6, 2019). Photo shows the recovered shabu worth a combined PHP45,000 and other pieces of evidence. (Photo courtesy of PDEA-12)