Marijuana courier dies in General Santos road accident
Peace and Order • 06:15 AM Sat Apr 6, 2024
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John Felix Unson
The motorcycle-riding marijuana courier Niño Francis Arellano Vitor died after colliding head-on with another motorist in General Santos City early Friday. (From PRO-12)
COTABATO CITY --- A motorcycle-riding courier out to deliver some P20,000 worth of his illegal merchandise died in a road accident in Barangay Calumpang in General Santos City before dawn Friday.
Witnesses had told investigators from the General Santos City Police Office that the 26-year-old Niño Francis Arellano Vitor was riding his motorcycle when he collided head-on with another motorist, a minor, in a stretch of the Fil-Am Highway in Purok Fernandez in Barangay Calumpang.
Vitor was targeted for entrapment, supposedly on Sunday, according to personnel of different intelligence units under the Police Regional Office-12.
An emergency team from the General Santos City local government unit that responded to the accident that resulted in the death of Vitor found in his bag four packs of dried marijuana leaves in sealed plastic containers while about to put him on a spine board for loading into an ambulance.
The emergency responders immediately turned over the marijuana leaves to policemen sifting through the scene of the accident that also injured a male motorist, whose name was withheld for his being underage.
Vitor was declared dead on arrival in a hospital where he was brought by policemen and employees of the General Santos City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office.
Brig. Gen. Augustus Placer, director of the Police Regional Office-12, on Friday ordered the General Santos CPO and the provincial police offices in Sarangani and South Cotabato to cooperate in identifying the accomplices of Vitor in his marijuana peddling activities.