According to Ozamiz City Police Director Chief Inspector Jovie Espenido, who supervised the series of raids, the seized ‘shabu’ are old stock hidden by the Parojinog family. He added that the illegal drugs are planned to be sold, now that Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog Sr. is dead, and his children, Vice Mayor Nova Parojinog, and Reynaldo Jr. are both in jail.
Espenido said the first raid was conducted in Misamis Occidental on Tuesday. The arrested suspects were identified as Melden Rabanes, a first cousin of Vice Mayor Parojinog, Butch Merino, the vice mayor’s former driver, and a certain Rosielyn Walohan. Confiscated from them are packs of alleged shabu, amounting to around P32 million.
In the follow-up operation on Wednesday, December 4, police raided the houses of a certain Michelle Gumapac, and Melodina and Gaudencio Malingin, Butch Merino’s parents. Confiscated from them are airsoft rifle, a steel vault owned by Vice Mayor Parojinog, and 10 kilos of suspected shabu, with an estimated street value of P80 million.
It can be recalled that Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog Sr. his wife Susan, Misamis Occidental Board member Octavio Parojinog Jr.,and 13 others were killed in an anti-drug operation in their compound led by Espenido last July 30. This was after President Duterte mentioned the Parojinogs in his list of so-called narcopoliticians.
Meanwhile, Vice Mayor Parojinog and Reynaldo Jr. are currently detained at the police headquarters in Camp Crame in Quezon City. Both of them are facing charges of illegal possession of dangerous drugs, and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. As of posting, the Parojinog siblings are still denying all the allegations against their family.
Contributed by Renato Pasayao
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