Northern Kabuntalan councilor killed in PDEA operation
Peace and Order • 16:30 PM Sun Aug 16, 2020
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By:
John M. Unson
The shabu and pistol seized from slain drug dealer Jaymar Nandang. (Contributed)
COTABATO CITY --- Anti-narcotics agents shot dead a municipal councilor in nearby Kabuntalan, Maguindanao in an entrapment operation in Barangay Rosary Heights 11 here Sunday.
Juvenal Azurin, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said Jaymar Nandang, died from multiple bullet wounds he sustained in a brief shootout with PDEA-BARMM agents at past noontime Sunday.
Azurin said PDEA-BARMM agents were to arrest Nandang after selling to a non-uniformed agency member P136,000 worth of shabu but neutralized him instead when he pulled out a .45 caliber pistol and opened fire.
Besides shabu, PDEA-BARMM agents also recovered his pistol and mobile phone that he used in communicating with his contacts, according to Azurin.