KUMALARANG,
Zamboanga del Sur (June 19, 2018) - Municipal
Drug Enforcement Team (MDET) of Kumalarang Municipal Police Station (MPS) successfully
arrested one person involved in illegal drugs during the conduct of buy-bust
operation at Purok Bombil, Poblacion, Kumalarang, Zamboanga Del Sur at about
4:20 in the afternoon of June 16, 2018.
The police identified the arrested
person as Rodolfo Dacula Lopez (newly identified drug personality), male, 34
years old, single and resident of Purok Campo Islam, Barangay Poblacion,
Kumalarang, Zamboanga del Sur.
The subject person was caught in
flagrante on the act of selling one (1) small sachet of suspected shabu worth
Five Hundred Pesos (P500.00) to PNP personnel who acted as a poseur buyer
during the operation that resulted to his arrest. Correspondingly, arrested
person was informed of his constitutional rights wherein he was read of the
Miranda Doctrine.
Afterwards, subject person was brought
to Kumalarang MPS for inventory of the seized item.
At the said station, prior to the
inventory, a bodily search was conducted incidental to his arrest in the
presence of invited witnesses Barangay Kagawad Halil Palot and Barangay Kagawad
Mark Anthony Indab, both elected officials of Barangay Poblacion, Kumalarang.
The search was resulted to recovery inside his pocket another Two (2) small
sachets of suspected shabu and a buy-bust money in Five Hundred Peso bill
(P500.00) with serial number CM271096.
Thereafter, arrested person was booked
for investigation while investigator on-case is conducting documentation of
evidences and the preparation of corresponding documents for his inquest at the
Provincial Prosecutors Office, Pagadian City. (By
J. CADION)
