Suspended Pangasinan city mayor aide-bodyguard, two others caught in drug sting

Art Dumlao — February 13, 2025

Suspended Pangasinan city mayor aide-bodyguard, two others caught in drug sting

BAGUIO CITY (February 11, 2025) --  Dagupan City policemen caught an administrative aide-bodyguard of a suspended City Mayor in Pangasinan and two other suspects in a drug sting dawn Monday at Barangay Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City.

 

Romeo Nabalon Emboltorio 63, Administrative aide-bodyguard of suspended Urdaneta City Mayor Julio F. Parayno lll, from Barangay San Jose Urdaneta City, Pangasinan; Louie Reyes Fermin aka "Bobby", 37, from Barangay Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City and Beverly De Vera Parayno, 45, from Barangay Bayaoas Urdaneta City, Pangasinan, were caught selling six grams of shabu on seven plastic sachets valued at P40,800.00.

 

Aside from the shabu and three are P500.00 genuine and 8 P1000.00 boodle money used in the buy-bust operation, a caliber 45 Colt MK IV pistol with magazine loaded with 8 pieces of live ammunition of caliber 45 were seized from the three.

 

The drug sting, Dagupan City police said, was launched in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Region 1.

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