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Top drug lord in Western Visayas Richard Prevendido alias "Buang" was killed in a shootout last night just as September is starting and confirmed by the Police Authorities in Iloilo Province.
At 9:30 pm, the operation of the composite team of the Regional Intelligence Unit, Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) and Iloilo Provincial Police Office (IPPO) were conducted at an abandoned house in Landheights Subdivison, Jaro, Iloilo City.
In an interview with Bombo Radyo Iloilo, IPPO director S / Supt. Marlon Tayaba said that the operation is serving the arrest warrant against Prevendido.
However, upon reaching the door when police man were trying to open the door and house being pushed by the inside, Prevendido starting shooting.
They do not have the choice but to fire back the subject.
Aside from the IPPO, Supt. Tayaba stated that the Resgional Intelligence Unit (RIU) accompanied them on their operations in an abandoned house located at the Landheights Subdivision in Brgy. Balabago, Jaro, Iloilo City.
Supt. Tayaba also confirmed that Richard Prevendido alias "Buang" tried to fight against the arresting officers which became the reason why he was shoot dead in a shootout against the raiding team. A high-powered AK-47 armalite was recovered alongside the body ofthe most wanted drug lord in Western Visayas.
The encounter took place between Prevendido and the operating team on the second floor of the house rented by the drug lord.
Wound in the head and throat were acquired by Prevendido.
According to S / Supt. Tayaba, the suspect has a .45 caliber gun in both hands.
Tayaba said four months ago that Prevendido had lived in that house.
This is said to be the seventh operation against the drug lord where they reached the towns of Anilao, Banate, Cabatuan, Janiuay, Lambunao and Barotac Viejo.
Among those recovered inside the house, Tayaba were shabu and guns.
It was learned that Prevendido had a head covering of P1.1 million.
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Aside from Richard Prevendido, a certain Ariel Prevendido alias Shabu was wounded during the encounter.
Prevendido was gunned down almost exactly a year after the killing of another alleged drug lord Melvin Odicta and his wife Merriam.
A lobe gunman shot dead the couple on August 29, 2016 shortly after they disembarked from a passenger ship at the Caticlan port in Malay town in Aklan. The killings have remained unsolved.
Odicta and Prevendido allegedly headed the two main drug groups that supply the bulk of illegal drugs in Western Visayas.
After Odicta’s death, the peace and order councils of Iloilo province and city each offered a P500,000 reward for information leading to Prevendido’s arrest.
PDEA-6 Assistant Regional Director Levi Ortiz said it is an opportunity being looked upon by the agency to apprehend Western Visayas’s top drug personality.
He cited the case of Barangay Bakhaw in Mandurriao, Prevendido’s bailiwick, where pedicab drivers are earning P500 to P2,000 daily from drug peddling.
“Now they are struggling to reach the P200 quota,” Ortiz said.
He also said that there is no drug laboratory in Iloilo City and province as shabu’s main sources are in Mindanao, Metro Manila, and Cebu,
Ortiz also cleared City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog of any involvement in illegal drugs.
Mabilog is again in the limelight as he was tagged for the third time by Pres. Rodrigo Duterto in the illegal activity.
The most recent was during the president’s speech at Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) at the Waterfront Airport Hotel and Casino in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, March 2, 2017.
But Ortiz said PDEA does not have evidence linking Mabilog to drug trade.
“Mayor Mabilog has been very supportive of our drug enforcement activities. But knowing that the president has vast intelligence team, there might be some information that he received that we do not know,” he said.
But he eluded arrest amid reported sightings in Antique province.
Prevendido’s death came three days after President Duterte assigned controversial police official Jovie Espenido to Iloilo.
Espenido has not yet assumed his post amid question on his qualifications to head the ICPO.
Source: BomboRadyo, Inquirer, PhilNews, DailyGuardian
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