An employee of the Negros Oriental Electric Cooperative 2 and a resident of Brgy. Looc, Dumaguete City were arrested in separate drug raids by the Task Force 24 yesterday and Friday.

NORECO 2 employee Arnel Flores, 30, was collared at his house in Barangay Daro, Dumaguete, for possessing a sachet of suspected shabu, and identification cards bearing the name of Rolando Garlito, of Barangay Magatas, Sibulan town, Negros Oriental.

Arrested Friday in Looc, Dumaguete was Alejandro Omo, 51, of Zone 2 in the barangay.  Operatives conducted the operation by virtue of a search warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Fe Lualhati Bustamante.

Confiscated from the house of  Omo were one plastic  sachet  containing suspected  shabu, a .38 caliber  revolver with  two live  ammunition, and a sniffing  and repacking  paraphernalia.

The suspect admitted he owns the gun but policemen are verifying the authenticity of the documents he presented.  The gun will also be submitted to ballistics examination to determine if it has been used for other crimes, the task force said.

Special agent Miguel Dungog of the National Bureau of Investigation Dumaguete,  said a concerned  citizen  in Looc informed them that the  house  of Omo is  being used as source and refuge of drug pushers  in the city.

Dungog  disclosed they  are  also trying to locate  the  whereabouts  of  Feliz Jane Quiaoit, who is also a subject  of  their warrant.

Quiaoit escaped with another suspect, Allan Diputado in a raid last  week in Barangay Bantayan.

The task force said that Quiaoit and Diputado were in the house of Omo Wednesday night.

Flores and Quiaoit will face charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.*MA

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