{"id":16604,"date":"2025-09-24T07:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=16604"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:16:50","slug":"sting-nets-hvt-cohorts-in-mabalacat-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/sting-nets-hvt-cohorts-in-mabalacat-city\/","title":{"rendered":"STING NETS HVT, COHORTS IN MABALACAT CITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>ANTI-DRUG operatives on Monday arrested a \u201chigh-value target\u201d (HVT) and four of his cohorts in a buy-bust operation that yielded P476,000 worth of shabu in Mabalacat City, Pampanga.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>A report to Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) director Brig. Gen. Ponce Rogelio Pe\u00f1ones Jr. &nbsp;showed that the Mabalacat City Police Station &#8211; Drug Enforcement Unit launched &nbsp;the entrapment in Madapdap Resettlement Center, Bgy. Dapdap .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arrested were alias \u201cDel,\u201d 47, tagged as a HVT; alias alias \u201cJing,\u201d 50; alias \u201cJay,\u201d 38; &nbsp;alias \u201cYel,\u201d 29; and alias \u201cPaeng,\u201d 26.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seized from the suspects were 70 grams of shabu worth at least P476,000.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The arrested suspects were brought to the Mabalacat City police for documentation and filing of criminal charges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pe\u00f1ones commended&nbsp; the arresting team, stressing that the anti-drug campaign remains a priority in Central Luzon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis successful operation is proof that our anti-drug drive, anchored on the 7 Focus Agenda of acting PNP chief Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr., is producing concrete results, the official said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe arrest of a \u2018high-value target\u2019 and his cohorts shows our determination to dismantle drug networks in Central Luzon,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pe\u00f1ones urged the public to support the police in their anti-criminality and anti-drug drives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe call on our communities to stay vigilant and actively report any drug-related activities. With your support, we can safeguard our families and preserve peace and order,\u201d the official added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG ANTI-DRUG operatives on Monday arrested a &ldquo;high-value target&rdquo; (HVT) and four of his cohorts in a buy-bust operation that yielded P476,000 worth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16606,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604\/revisions\/16606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}