Look: A Priest in Tarlac Was Arrested During a Buy-Bust Operation

This was the inquiry in the brains of a religious congregation in Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija, following a police buy bust operation that brought about the capture of their minister and two different people in Barangay Poblacion Norte, Paniqui, Tarlac last Monday.

Administrator Joel Mendoza, Paniqui police chief, identified the arrested as Randy Valdez, 35, a minister of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI or Aglipayan Church) in Cuyapo; and Mike Raven Quinto, 20, and Camille Franilla, 23, both of this town.

"When we accosted Valdez alongside with the two different suspects, I thought he (Valdez) was joking, or either high on drugs, when he presented himself as a minister. However, it ended up being valid, he is a priest of the Aglipayan church," Mendoza said.



Things being what they are Valdez, who is a local of this town, is the ordained minister the Aglipayan Church in Cuyapo.

"The objective of our capture were Camille (Franilla) and Quinto who are both on our Municipal Watchlist of Drug Personalities. It was Camille who got the r500 marked money from my policeman poseur-buyer however it was this individual (Valdez) who gave the two plastic sachets of shabu. That is the reason we captured them," clarified Mendoza.

He included that Quinto, who yielded five sachets of shabu, has three kin who are supposedly known drug pushers.

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