ZAMBOANGA CITY – Local cops arrested another policeman accused of being involved in illegal drugs, officials said Monday, adding he is the eighth policeman arrested since early this year on various charges.
Officials said the 42-year old Cpl. Junhavier Alam Ahmahdul was arrested on August 29 by members of the Police Station 1 where he is also assigned.
“He was arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 under criminal case number 48799,” said Maj. Shellamie Chang, a regional police spokeswoman.
Chang did not give details of the criminal case against Ahmahdul or whether he was selling or using illegal drugs, but she said Judge Shene Chiong Cañete, of Branch 35, who issued the arrest warrant against the policeman has recommended bail bond of P200,000 for the temporary liberty of the suspect.
Maj. Jivertson Pelovello, the chief of the Drug Enforcement Unit of the Zamboanga City Police Office, was also sacked from his post in January after he tested positive for illegal drug use. He was among 60 members of the local police force who underwent drug testing in December.
Maj. Orlyn Leyte, police station commander in the village of Ayala, and four other cops were also arrested in March by members of the Philippine National Police - Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (IMEG) led by Lt. Col. Mario Cortez, after they allegedly robbed jewelleries and extorted money from a store owner during a drug raid.
The others who were reportedly involved in the robbery and extortion were SSgts. Hegenio Salvador, Asser Abdulkadim, Cpls. Ismael Sasapan and Juman Arabani – all members of Leyte’s Drug Enforcement Unit.
And on August 21, IMEG agents arrested the 37-year old Cpl. Alexis Castillo Garcia in an entrapment in downtown Zamboanga after he allegedly extorted money from the families of people he had arrested on various crimes in exchange for their freedom. (Mindanao Examiner)
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