Two military officers and a woman were arrested Tuesday
evening during an anti-illegal drug raid operation here, the police said
Wednesday.
Pol. Supt. Danildo Tumanda, the city’s deputy police
director, identified the suspects as Corporals Marvin Mondela and Michael
Cinco. The woman was identified as Roili Mae Flores, the alleged girlfriend of
Mondela.
Tumanda said that the suspects were collared during an
anti-illegal drug raid on a house that Flores
allegedly rented in Patag village here.
He said that the house, owned by a certain “Escala,” was
placed under surveillance for several months after residents complained about
reports of a “pot session,” which often took place in the house.
During the initial investigation, Flores ,
who had just been released from jail last month for drug using, reportedly
confessed that Mondela was present during the raid to count the money earned
from drug pushing.
“The police already handcuffed Mondela inside the house when
Corporal Cinco texted to buy drugs,” Flores
said. She said she handed over a sachet of shabu to Cinco which led to his
arrest.
Tumanda admitted that drug pushing is rampant in the area
which caused to high incidents of theft and other crimes.
Capt. Joe Patrick Marinez, the spokesperson of the Army’s
4th Infantry Division, said that the two soldiers have already been discharged
after having been declared on absence without official leave (AWOL).
“Mondela, a member of the 36th Infantry Battalion assigned
in Surigao, was discharged from service in 2008 due to AWOL after being
involved in womanizing, drinking and gambling,” Martinez
He said that Cinco, is a member of the 3rd Field Artillery
Battalion assigned in the Visayas, is not under the jurisdiction of the 4ID.
Tumanda said that the raiding team seized from the suspects,
two sachets of methamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu and various drug
paraphernalia, including a cal. 22 Magnum revolver.
He said that the City police has forwarded the specimens to
the crime laboratory, and is set to file the charges against the suspects in
the City Prosecutor’s Office Wednesday.
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