‘Bigtime’ drug pusher nabbed in Dumaguete

DUMAGUETE CITY  , Philippines  â€“ Police operatives swooped down on yet another suspected big-time drug dealer and two other suspects in separate anti-illegal drugs operations in Dumaguete City on Monday.

Police Inspector Ryan Jay Orapa, chief of the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group of the provincial police office identified the suspects as Jakiri Catigtig Torremocha, alias Kir Kir, male and of legal age, Rosanna Villarin Elnar alias Tatoy and Jerome Jimenez Patron, live-in partners, all of legal age and residents of Barangay Looc in Dumaguete City.

The arrest of Torremocha sometime around 12:10 p.m. Monday at Sitio Laguna, Barangay Looc, subsequently led the operatives to an entrapment buy-bust operation resulting to the arrest of the couple, Elnar and Patron, said Orapa.

During the first buy-bust operation conducted by the PAIDSOTG and the Dumaguete City Police, suspect Jakiri Torremocha was arrested after he allegedly sold suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu, with an estimated street value of P7,000, to an undercover agent.

Torremocha is allegedly one of the runners of  Rosana Elnar, who operatives tagged as a main source of shabu in Dumaguete and other parts of  Negros Oriental.

Elnar, who is in the police’s target list of drug personalities for years now, has been very elusive, according to Orapa.

However, on Monday evening, following Jakiri’s disclosure and with the police operatives using his cellphone while transacting with Elnar, the woman allegedly delivered a large quantity of “shabu” during buy-bust operation around 6 p.m. Monday at Zone 2 in the coast village of Looc in Dumaguete City.

Seized from her and her live-in partner were two large heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu with an estimated street value of P50,000, said Inspector Orapa.

The operatives also seized from the suspects marked P500 bills and bogus money used in the transaction.

Inspector Orapa disclosed that Elnar allegedly sources her large supply of shabu from the national bilibid prison in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila.

Orapa said it is not the first time that they have encountered suspected drug dealers in Dumaguete whose source of the prohibited drugs is believed to be in what authorities describe as an alleged network of illegal drug dealers operating from inside the national prison facility. /JMD (FREEMAN)