By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News
Published February 28, 2021 9:06am
A screengrab from the CCTV footage taken from the fastfood restaurant parking lot on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City shows the shooting incident on Wednesday, FEb. 24, 2021 between operatives of the Philippine National Police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. The Senate will not push through with its scheduled inquiry this week into the fatal shootout between police personnel and Philippine Drug Enforcement Authority (PDEA) agents in Quezon City. The Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, chaired by former police chief now Senator Ronald Dela Rosa, was supposed to conduct the inquiry on Tuesday, March 2.
Published February 28, 2021 10:06pm Four days after the shootout between the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said the drugs and the marked money from the failed anti-drug operation had yet to be turned over. The NBI is now in close coordination with both the PNP and the PDEA for more evidence to be surrendered, according to a report on GMA s 24 Oras Weekend on Sunday. Two police officers, a PDEA agent, and an informant were killed in the shootout during an anti-drug operation in Quezon City along Commonwealth Avenue last week.
Cops slain in Commonwealth shootout were bemedalled officers
Published February 25, 2021 9:43pm The two policemen who died in the shootout between the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency on Wednesday are a big loss to the police organization, according to Mariz Umali’s report on “24 Oras” on Thursday. Police Corporals Elvin Garado and Lauro de Guzman, Jr. suffered multiple gunshot wounds following the incident at a mall along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City on Wednesday evening. An autopsy will be performed on their remains. The PNP mourned the death of the two police officers. Garado, 36, was assigned to the Quezon City Police Department in 2015. He was assigned to the District Special Operation Unit of the QCPD in December 2020.
Published February 25, 2021 8:24pm The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency was informed about the Quezon City Police District s plan to hatch a buy-bust operation against two drug personalities in the city, documents obtained by GMA News indicated. According to Emil Sumangil s exclusive report on 24 Oras , documents showed the QCPD coordinated with the PDEA on February 23 a day ahead of the anti-drug operation and the deadly shootout between QC policemen and PDEA agents. The operation was supposed to be led by a police major with 29 other officials and operatives. Based on the document, the Regional Tactical Operations Center of the PDEA-National Capital Region accepted the coordination form of the QCPD on the same day.
SunStar Drug syndicate may have set up misencounter, PDEA says
MANILA. Officials of the PNP and PDEA hold a joint press conference on February 25, 2021, a day after a misencounter between their personnel killed two policemen, one PDEA agent and an asset. (Third Anne Peralta-Malonzo)
+ February 25, 2021 TOP officials of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Thursday, February 25, 2021, said they have yet to reconcile the conflicting versions of the shootout between their personnel in Quezon City.
What was clear, so far, was that it was a misencounter, they said. Both the PNP and PDEA teams were conducting legitimate operations.