–Two alleged drug dealers were killed in anti-narcotics operations in this province on Friday and Saturday.
Nueva Ecija Provincial Police Office Officer-in-Charge Col. Marvin Joe C. Saro identified the first suspect as a certain “Visaya” and a still unidentified cohort were killed when they tried to shoot it out with lawmen in Barangay Poblacion, San Isidro town on December 11. San Isidro Police recovered from the suspects about 30 grams of shabu, estimated to be P200,000, two caliber-.45 pistols, a motorcycle, and marked money.
Saro also said 24 sachets of shabu, with an estimated value of P50,000, were seized, and five suspects were arrested in another anti-illegal drugs operation in Barangay San Isidro in Zaragoza town. The suspects were identified as Alberto Regala, 32; Lester Destura, 30, both residents Barangay 69, Caloocan City; Noel Pangilnan, 39; Jay-ar Gravamin; and a 15-year-old male suspect, all residents of Barangay Akle, San Ildefonso, Bulacan.