December 31, 2024 | 10:41am
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — The policeman who killed a bus passenger and wounded two personnel of a police unit in Region 11 in a gun rage on Saturday, December 28, tested positive for use of shabu.
Cpl. Alfred Dawatan Sabas of the General Santos City Police Station 7 under the Police Regional Office-12, is now locked in a detention facility of the PRO-11, awaiting prosecution for murder, frustrated murder and other criminal offenses.
Senior police officials in Region 12, among them Col. Gilbert Tuzon, director of the Cotabato Provincial Police Office, and their regional director, Brig. Gen. Arnold Ardiente, confirmed on Tuesday, December 31, that Sabas flunked the procedural drug test administered by investigators and forensic experts in the Davao del Sur Provincial Police Office under PRO-11..
An irate Ardiente told reporters last Sunday that he will work out the dishonorable discharge of Sabas from the Philippine National Police.
Sabas and his live-in partner, Phoenix Marie Delos Santos Javier, first traded invectives loudly while inside a bus, en route to Davao City, before he pulled out his 9 millimeter service pistol and opened fire at other passengers, killing instantly Reynaldo Bigno, Jr., an off-duty security guard.
Javier, the girlfriend of Sabas, is a known shabu peddler in Kidapawan City in Cotabato province, where their families reside, and was jailed for weeks after she fell in an entrapment operation in one of the barangays in the city by anti-narcotics agents of PRO-12 in February 2024.
She was, however, released from detention after signing a written commitment to reform for good, under a state probation program for drug offenders.
After killing Bigno, Sabas shot and wounded two members of the 11th Regional Mobile Force Battalion of PRO-11 in a detachment along a highway in Barangay New Opon in Magsaysay town in Davao del Sur, where the terrified bus pulled over and reported the incident.
The wounded policemen, Cpl. Kent Maurith Pamaos and Patrolman Russel Love Tapia, are now both recuperating in a hospital, according to officials of PRO-11.
Relatives of Sabas in Kidapawan City had told reporters that he is addicted to shabu and marijuana and is a heavy liquor drinker and often gets into trouble when drunk.
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