TUGUEGARAO CITY, CAGAYAN: An illegal drug suspect was killed while three others were arrested in recent separate buy-busts in Cagayan Valley. Chief Supt. Jose Mario Espino, Police Region 2 (PRO) director, said Orlando Da Jose of Sitio Neto, Baragay Batal in Santiago City, Isabela, was killed on Wednesday night. Espino said Da Jose fired at a police officer who posed as buyer during the buy-bust in Echague, Isabela. The police officer and his back-up traded shots with the suspect. The three other arrested suspects were Norlando Manibog, 19, student, from Greenville Subdivision, Mambabanga, Luna, Isabela; Edgardo De Leon, 45, cock breeder in Barangay Salinungan West, San Mateo, Isabela; and Jun Palmones, 40, auto painter and a drug surrenderer from Barangay Osmeña, Solano, Nueva Vizcaya. Manibog was arrested in Luna town on Thursday with two pieces of heat-sealed plastic sachet of dried marijuana leaves and P1,000 marked money. De Leon was arrested in San Mateo, Isabela, also on Wednesday with a small sachet containing shabu confiscated from him, and Palmores was arrested on Wednesday in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya with three sachets of shabu.
