{"id":206413,"date":"2019-03-12T23:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T03:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=206413"},"modified":"2019-03-12T23:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T03:42:21","slug":"big-time-party-drugs-supplier-killed-in-manila-buy-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/03\/12\/big-time-party-drugs-supplier-killed-in-manila-buy-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Big time &#8216;party drugs&#8217; supplier killed in Manila buy-bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_205317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205317\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/28378847_1945720932423600_3418630601714649016_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-205317\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/28378847_1945720932423600_3418630601714649016_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/28378847_1945720932423600_3418630601714649016_n-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/28378847_1945720932423600_3418630601714649016_n-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/28378847_1945720932423600_3418630601714649016_n-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/28378847_1945720932423600_3418630601714649016_n-1-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-205317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PDEA agents also recovered Pasion\u2019s cellular phones containing sensitive videos of drugged women. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineDrugEnforcementAgency\/photos\/a.1945720945756932\/1945720932423600\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineDrugEnforcementAgency\/\">PDEA Top Stories\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; An alleged \u201cbig-time party drugs supplier\u201d in Metro Manila was killed in a buy-bust operation in Manila on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>PDEA Special Enforcement Service Director Levi Ortiz said the suspect, Steve \u201cJohn\u201d Pasion, 31, was killed after he allegedly tried to grab the firearm and fire at an arresting officer at the parking lot of his condominium unit in (Amaia Skies Avenida) Barangay 310 in Santa Cruz, Manila.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe tried to grab the firearm of the arresting officer and even tried to shoot one of the operatives. This prompted operatives to shoot back in self-defense.\u00a0<em>Dinala siya sa ospital at sa kasamaang palad binawian siya ng buhay<\/em>\u00a0(He was brought to a hospital but he died later),\u201d Ortiz said.<\/p>\n<p>Also arrested was Pasion\u2019s live-in girlfriend, Irene \u201cSophie\u201d Mercado, who was in the car with him when the transaction was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The operation yielded 15 tablets of suspected \u201cecstasy\u201d worth PHP30,000; PHP300,000 worth of suspected \u201cshabu\u201d and sachets of suspected cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Also recovered from Pasion\u2019s condominium unit, which Ortiz said was being used as a \u201cwarehouse\u201d for imported narcotics, were a kilogram of \u201cshabu\u201d worth PHP6 million, three bottles of liquid ecstasy worth PHP75,000 and other drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>PDEA agents also recovered Pasion\u2019s cellular phones containing sensitive videos of drugged women.<\/p>\n<p>He said Pasion even managed to break one of his phones which allegedly contains more information about his illegal transactions.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the suspect has \u201cregular clients\u201d &#8212; a movie and television actor and actress whom he refused to name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re high-profile, always appearing on TV,\u201d Ortiz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; An alleged \u201cbig-time party drugs supplier\u201d in Metro Manila was killed in a buy-bust operation in Manila on Monday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":205317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}