A man claiming to be an obstetrician-gynecologist was arrested in an entrapment for dispensing alleged fertility pills to women jail guards in front of the Bacolod District Jail at about 10:30 a.m. yesterday.

Audie Tizon Libo-on, 30, of Brgy. Pahilanga, Hinigaran town, Negros Occidental, who also identified himself as "Dr. Francis Balzomo", officer-in-charge of the Bacolod City Health Office, was collared by Bacolod Intelligence and Investigation operatives after he handed assorted tablets to a woman jail officer who acted a poseur-buyer in exchange for P1,500 in marked money, police reports said.

SPO1 Joeven Lavilla, an IIB operative, yesterday told the DAILY STAR, Senior Jail Officer 1 Ma. Lorelie Dimaculangan and JO1 Renee Christy Ledesma sought their help after they doubted the identity of Libo-on, who claimed he is selling "fertility pills".

Dimaculangan said Libo-on whom she met through a friend, told her to undergo physical examination after she confided to him that she wanted to bear a child.

She said she underwent physical examination conducted by Libo-on in their office on Feb. 28. She said Libo-on prescribed her medicines that were placed in a sachet that had no brand names and were worth P1,500.

JO1 Renee Christy Ledesma, also a jailer, said she decided to buy the tablets after Dimaculangan convinced her to do so. She said she texted Libo-on to set her physical examination on Thursday last week.

The next day, she said she dropped by the office of Libo-on whom she thought was "Dr. Balzomo". She said she confirmed that "Libo-on" is not the CHO officer-in-charge as he claimed.

She said she informed Dimaculangan and Chief Insp. Sammy Abagaygar, district jail head, who later asked the IIB operatives to plan the entrapment.

Another woman jailer, who asked not to be named, said she lost about P12,000 in cash to Lib-on whom she met in Kabankalan City last month. She said Libo-on befriended her and borrowed money from her to finance his fish business, but failed to pay her back.

Libo-on, meanwhile, admitted he had victimized the women jail officers because of poverty. He said he has no other source of income, and added he is willing to face the charges to be filed against him in the court.

He said he has no background in medicines because he graduated with an Information Technology degree in Manila. He refused to comment when asked why he had identified himself as "Dr. Balzomo".

The Bacolod police is still studying the charges to be filed against Libo-on who is now detained in Police Precinct 6.*DMG

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