7 nabbed in Toledo and Consolacion drug busts

CEBU, Philippines - Seven drug personalities were arrested and more than P300,000 worth of suspected shabu was seized in two separate buy-bust operations in Toledo City and Consolacion town Sunday evening.

In Toledo City, four newly identified drug personalities were nabbed in a buy-bust operation conducted by Toledo police in Barangay Calong-Calong, Sunday evening.

Arrested were Jomar Villas, 39; Jeramie Pasaylo, 28; Julito Quilay, 39; and Adones Repuesto, 26.

Repuesto suffered a gunshot wound to his right leg after police shot him when he tried to draw his firearm in an attempt to resist arrest.

Villas, the subject of the operation, was found with four medium packs of suspected shabu worth P220,000, a 9mm caliber firearm with live ammunition, and P1,000 cash believed to be proceeds of his illegal drug activities.

Police Superintendent Anthony Bagarinao, Toledo City Police Station chief, said that Villas is a new drug personality in the city.

Allegedly, Villas could dispose of 20 to 30 grams of suspected shabu a week, a quantity that Bagarinao said is very alarming.

Confiscated from Repuesto was an unlicensed .38 caliber pistol with live ammunition, while drug paraphernalia was confiscated from both Pasaylo and Quilay.

In Consolacion, a mother and her two sons were arrested in a buy-bust operation conducted in Barangay Danglag, Consolacion, also on Sunday evening.

Arrested were Earl Lowrence Pasilang, 18; his brother, John Bryll Pasilang, 19; and their mother, Grace Pasilang, 41.

During the operation, a police poseur-buyer transacted with Earl and his brother. But after sensing police presence, the two suspects immediately ran inside their house, prompting the operatives to follow.

Inside the house, operatives were able to corner Earl and John Bryll. Operatives saw that Grace was behaving suspiciously, and upon checking, a medium pack of suspected shabu was found in her possession.

Grace’s husband was also arrested for drugs in 2010, and according to report, Grace took over the illegal drug business after his arrest.

Siezed from the two siblings were 15 packs of suspected shabu worth P80,240.

“They are running the trade as a family business," said Police Superintendent Mina Domingo, Consolacion police chief, in a press statement. (FREEMAN)