MANILA, Philippines — An inmate at the Sablayan Penal Colony in Occidental Mindoro, right from inside his cell, “dictated the tempo” of the drug transaction that led to the deadly shootout between police officers and anti-drug operatives in Quezon City last Feb. 14, according to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
During a hearing of the Senate public order and dangerous drugs committee on Monday, Cesar Bacani, the National Capital Region director of the NBI, provided this and other details of the bureau’s investigation into the fatal “misencounter” that stemmed from a buy-bust operation at a mall on Commonwealth Avenue.
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