{"id":137298,"date":"2017-12-08T01:48:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T06:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=137298"},"modified":"2017-12-08T01:48:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T06:48:41","slug":"new-pdea12-chief-assumes-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/08\/new-pdea12-chief-assumes-post\/","title":{"rendered":"New PDEA12 chief assumes post"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Valente Fortunato Cari\u00f1o formally assumed on Wednesday as the new acting director of PDEA-Region 12 based in this city, replacing the relieved former regional chief Gil Cesario Castro. (PNA photo)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

GENERAL SANTOS CITY\u2014 The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has assigned a new director for Region 12 as part of a regional reshuffle.<\/p>\n

Valente Fortunato Cari\u00f1o formally assumed on Wednesday as the new acting director of PDEA-Region 12 based in this city, replacing the relieved former regional chief Gil Cesario Castro.<\/p>\n

Castro, along with nine other agents, were relieved and transferred to their central office in an order dated Nov. 29 issued by PDEA Director General Aaron Aquino.<\/p>\n

Prior to his reassignment to the region, Cari\u00f1o was the deputy regional director of PDEA in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.<\/p>\n

Cari\u00f1o vowed to continue with the agency\u2019s intensified crackdown in the region against illegal drug groups and alleged \u201cnarco-politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs your new regional director, expect more arrests of high value targets and the conduct of more high impact operations,\u201d he said during the simple turnover ceremony.<\/p>\n

He vowed to pursue closer coordination with local government units and other stakeholders to further strengthen their campaign against illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

Castro, who served as regional director for over nine months after assuming last Jan. 17, \u00a0urged PDEA-12 personnel to continue their unrelenting stance and remain committed towards the agency\u2019s goals to cleanse local communities of illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

He called on local government leaders in the region to give their \u201call-out support\u201d to the new PDEA-12 leadership.<\/p>\n

Under Castro\u2019s leadership, PDEA-12 launched a total of 175 operations that led to the arrest of 261 suspects.<\/p>\n

These operations led to the recovery of 3,421.459 grams of shabu, 11,790.21 grams og marijuana and 7,100 hills of uprooted marijuana that were valued at around P22.1 million.<\/p>\n

Among those arrested were alleged leaders of major illegal drug groups and local politicians, including a mayor and several barangay chairs, who were supposedly acting as drug protectors.<\/p>\n

In October, PDEA agents seized about a kilogram of suspected shabu worth around P5 million, drug paraphernalia, suspected ecstasy, laboratory equipment, assorted firearms, explosives and ammunition in a raid at the house of Maasim Mayor Aniceto Lopez Jr.<\/p>\n

The mayor, who was tagged by PDEA-12 as alleged protector of a local terror group and the El Patron Drug Group, was not around during the raid but later surrendered to Senator Emmanuel Pacquiao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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