ORMOC CITY-The local police in Carigara,Leyte filed formal charges against five people for obstruction of justice and resistance, and disobedience to a person of authority at the Provincial Prosecutors’ Office last September 23.
Charged were aliases Ana, Michelle, Cherry Ann, Melanie, and Jevy, all legal age and residents of Brgy. Camansi of said town.
The charges filed against the suspect’s stemmed after obstructing the operation of the operatives of the Station Drugs Enforcement Team (SDET) of the local police during the buy-bust operation against the suspect Jesmark Brazil, 22, single, unemployed, resident of Brgy. Camansi at about 5:00 pm on September 19, 2025.
A video posted on social media showed several people obstructing the operation of the SDET after the suspect was already apprehended.
The five people charged are close relatives of the suspect. The obstruction resulted in the wounding of one of the fingers of town police chief Major Reymund Quinagutan.
But despite the disturbance created by the people who were charged by the police, the police continued their operation, bringing the suspect to the police station to continue the investigation together with the law-mandated witnesses.
Recovered from the possession of the suspect was one sachet containing a white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu procured by an operative in the amount of P500.
Also recovered from the suspect was a plastic container that contained four more sachets containing the same white crystalline substances, also suspected to be shabu, and one P500 bill, a court-subscribed money intended for the operation.
The suspect was informed of the nature of his arrest and was apprised of his constitutional rights in a language that he understood and spoke.
The Carigara SDET said that the estimated weight of the recovered illegal drugs from the suspect was 0.50 grams with a street value of P3,400.
Charges of violations of RA 9165 were already filed at the Provincial Prosecutors’ Office against the suspect, who is temporarily detained at the locked-up cell of Carigara MPS.
(ROBERT DEJON)
