FIVE drug suspects were robbed before they were killed in a house in Barangay Addition Hills in Mandaluyong City Monday night, police said Tuesday.
Eastern Police District Director Police Senior Supt. Romeo Sapitula said that the five victims, identified as Manuel Evagelista, 37; Jennifer Discargar, 31; Paolo Tuboroy, 24; Edmar Velarde, 31, and Macmac Albano, 30 were killed inside the house of Roger Evangelista, brother of one of the victims, at Block 37, Lot 1, Barangay Addition Hills at past 9 p.m.
Sapitula said the suspects were allegedly in a pot session when some six suspects, still unidentified entered the house and shot them to death.
The P200,000 earned by Discargar from the sale of drugs was missing, police said.
Witnesses said they saw six men wearing jackets and masks barge into Evangelista’s house and kill the victims.
Drug paraphernalia and five sachets of shabu were found.
Meanwhile, six drug suspects, including three Koreans, were arrested Tuesday at a buy-bust operation at an upscale condominium unit in Makati City.
Jintaek Lee, Bang Kho Laem a.k.a. Kuo and Chi Pui Wong and Isaac Kho a.k.a. Kiderck Kim and Kook Jung Wong were nabbed by the police at One Rockwell East Tower at 12:04 a.m.
Also arrested were three Filipinos identified as Kathlyn Nonato, Jaypee Soriano and Arby Diaz a.k.a. Arbeen Jhielyn Diaz.
After breaking down the condominium unit’s door to find the suspects, police found the suspects inserting more than 16 grams of shabu inside an expandable folder for sending to South Korea and the United States through a courier company.
Confiscated from the suspects were sachets of shabu, five guns, four samurai swords, two laptops and 10 cellphones.
Another suspect named Lyn Paz is still on the run while police are also looking for the suspects’ Chinese drug supplier.
One policeman was reported hurt in the operation.
In Malabon, police arrested a sexagenarian drug suspect and 16 others who were having a pot session inside a cemetery in Malabon Monday night.
A staunch critic of the administration, Senator Leila de Lima lamented the killing of more than 4,000 people in the government’s war on drugs.
“The cries and pleas of the families of the 4,737 people who perished in the government’s war against drugs are too loud to ignore,” said De Lima. With Francisco Tuyay, Jun David and Macon Ramos-Araneta