CIB chief gets death threats

CEBU, Philippines - Death threats are what he eats these days after an intensive crackdown on illegal drugs in Cebu City, said City Intelligence Branch chief Supt. Romeo Santander Jr.

Santander disclosed he has received numerous threats since CIB busted big time drug operations the past two weeks. He said it appears drug personalities have suffered a blow from the crackdown and are not happy about it.

Still, he said the campaign continues and the death threats are hazards of the job.

On Friday, CIB apprehended Henry Monterde in Barangay Inayawan and seized from him over a half million peso worth of shabu and dried marijuana.

The dried marijuana leaves reportedly came from Balamban town and Santander believes they were delivered to the city on board a vegetable supply truck.

He added that the 15, 000 sticks of marijuana is supposed to be sold in the different schools in the city.

Based on the account of the PNP Regional Crime Laboratory 7, the dried marijuana leaves could have been planted in a one-hectare lot. The crime laboratory noted it was the first time that the Cebu City Police Office confiscated this amount of marijuana leaves in one operation.

Aside from Santander, Bohol Provincial Police chief Sr. Supt. Dennis Agustin also disclosed receiving death threats even before Ubay town chief Sr. Insp. George Caña was ambushed more than a week ago.

Agustin said threats are part of being a police officer and that he is discarding such threats because they are only a nuisance in his job. He shared that someone had been sending him death threats in Cebuano, which he could not understand.  (FREEMAN)