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LEGAZPI CITY - The Commission on Human Rights in Bicol (CHR-5) has issued a resolution asking the National Police Commission here to file long-delayed administrative and criminal cases against four members of the Daraga town policefor killing three suspected drug pushers during a drug sting in February 2019 in Daraga. The resolution obtained by the Philippine News Agency on Monday said CHR investigators, led by lawyer Laurain Ampongan-Marcaida, found out that Lt. Linus Dominic Lopez, Master Sgt. Evan Orayan, and Corporals Christian Verdillo and Annaliza Casulla committed human rights violations during the operationsin Barangay Binitayan onFeb. 22, 2019. It said the Daraga police office was uncooperative in providing official investigation and ballistic examination reports and inventory of evidence seized from the crime scene. The cops allegedly failed to comply with the three-witness rule, where three witnesses must be secured not only during the inventory but at the time of the warran ....