CEBU CITY, Philippines -- The two separate buy-bust operations on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, 2020, led to the arrest of a top 10 most wanted drug personality, an ex-convict and his
By: Alven Marie A. Timtim - Multimedia Reporter - CDN DigitalA buy-bust operation by the PDEA-7 and PRO-7 led to the arrest of the top 10 most wanted drug personality in Cebu City on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, 2020, in Barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City.| Photo Courtesy of PDEA-7
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The two separate buy-bust operations on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, 2020, led to the arrest of a top 10 most wanted drug personality, an ex-convict and his cohort. Arrested during the operations led by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas and some personnel from the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas were Tom Aliviado Villacarillo, Jesus Cecilio Sepe, and Franz Edson Gacasan, who is among the top 10 most wanted illegal drugs trader in Cebu City.
First to fall were Villacarillo, 43, a resident of Barangay Labangon, and Sepe, 29, a resident of Barangay Pasil. Both were arrested in aConfiscated from the two were 125 grams of suspected shabu worth P850,000. PDEA-7 Director Levi Ortiz, said that Villacarillo was the subject of the operation. He was being monitored by the agency for about a week.They later found out that Villacarillo had been jailed 13 years ago for frustrated homicide and illegal drugs cases.Authorities say Villacarillo and his cohort Sepe are able to dispose at least 100 to 150 grams of illegal drugs per week around Cebu City.
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