MANILA, Philippines—Two buy-bust operations.
This, according to the head of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), was emerging as a scenario in the search for answers to the gunfight between PDEA agents and policemen in a Quezon City mall that killed four people.
Wilkins Villanueva, PDEA director general, said the PDEA and Philippine National Police (PNP) were on separate buy-bust missions which led to the “misencounter.”
“One thing I [can] tell you is that PDEA is doing a legitimate operation and police is doing a legitimate operation,” said Villanueva at a joint press briefing with the PNP.
He was asked about a “sell-bust” operation involving undercover PDEA …
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