IN SAN CARLOS
Raid yields marijuana

An estimated half-a-kilo of suspected dried marijuana leaves and fruiting tops were seized by the police in a raid in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, during the weekend.

Armed with a search warrant issued by Judge Rogelio Beldia, a police team led by Supt. Ricardo de la Paz swooped down on the house of couple Ian and Gina Eborda in Brgy. 2, San Carlos City.

De la Paz said the raid led to the arrest of Dionesia Jimenez who tried to sneak out of the house of Eborda, carrying a school bag owned by the couple's child containing notebooks and half-a-kilo of dried marijuana leaves, with a market value of about P5,000.

Police investigations show that the dried marijuana leaves originated from Balamban, Cebu, and were delivered to the Eborda couple through a motorized boat that landed in Brgy. San Isidro, a coastal area of Calatrava town. Nine kilos of dried marijuana leaves were also seized by the police in San Carlos City, in previous years, police records also showed.

De la Paz said the Eborda couple is listed in the police order of battle of drug personalities in San Carlos City.

Police investigations also indicated that shippers of prohibited drugs from Cebu are now avoiding the port of San Carlos as their entry point to Negros Occidental, after the formation of " Task Force Shabu Watch", a composite task force of policemen, PNP Maritime Group, Philippine Coast Guard and Ports Authority.

The dried marijuana leaves confiscated from the Ebordas were brought to the PNP Crime Laboratory in Bacolod City for examination, while charges for violation of Republic Act 9165 are now being readied for filing against Jimenez and the Eborda couple.

Last week, 13 persons were also arrested by the police in simultaneous raids in Brgy. 3, San Carlos City, that also led to the discovery of a "one-stop-shop- area" for shabu users in the city*GPB

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50 NOPPO
policemen attend SWAT

About 50 police non-commissioned officers of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office attended Day 10 of the Special Weekend Academy Training held Saturday, at the NOPPO headquarters, in Bacolod City.

Guest lecturer was assistant provincial Jail Warden Dionisio Silva Jr. who represented Warden Marcus Ybañez, a NOPPO press release said yesterday.

Silva discussed Article 12 of the Revised Penal Code which deals with circumstances that exempt an individual from criminal liability, specifically in cases involving children aged 9 to 15 years, the press release said.

He also discussed Article 29 regarding the period of preventive imprisonment deducted from the term of jail sentence, it also said. The Standard Operating Procedures for effective jail management, the need for strict enforcement of strip searching from head to foot, and the prohibition of cellphones and contrabands such as drugs, alcohol and illegal weapons inside the detention cells were also discussed to the policemen.

Silva also enumerated the factors leading to the escape of prisoners and stressed that rehabilitation is the principal purpose of putting offenders behind bars, the press release added.*

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