LUCENA CITY —- A drug suspect was killed when he engaged police in a gunfight after a buy-bust operation in Cavite province.
Cavite police chief Colonel Marlon Santos said Erwin Armie Mojica was killed after resisting arrest and firing at policemen during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Olaes in General Mariano Alvarez (GMA) town on March 15.
The report was posted on the police public information office’s Facebook page on March 16.
A loaded caliber .38 gun, two fired cartridges from the same gun, and a sachet of shabu (crystal meth) worth P40,800 in the street market were reportedly recovered from the slain suspect.
The police also arrested 17 drug suspects after eight sti…
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