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PDEA spokesperson Derrick Arnold Carreon (File photo) MANILA - The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) will exhaust all available legal remedies relative to the criminal charges filed by the Department of Justice's National Prosecution Service (NPS) against three PDEA operatives and four policers following the alleged misencounter in Quezon City in February last year. In a statement on Saturday, PDEA spokesperson Derrick Arnold Carreon said the agency stands by its Drug Enforcement Officers' (DEO) action on Feb. 24, 2021 when two separate anti-drug operations ended in a misencoun...

MANILA - Criminal charges were filed Thursday against three Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) operatives and four policemen in connection with the misencounter in February last year in Quezon City between the two units conducting separate drug busts. The Office of Prosecutor General Benedicto Malcontento said prosecutors have approved the filing before a Quezon City court of homicide charges against PDEA agents Khee Maricar Rodas, Jeffrey Baguidudol and Jelou Satiniaman for the death of Cpl. Eric Elvin Garado. Cpl. Paul Christian Gandeza, Lt. Honey Besas, Maj. Sandie Caparroso and Mast...

State prosecutors have indicted three agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and four police officers over the botched anti-drug operation in February 2021 where four people died.

DOJ orders indictment of PDEA agents, cops over bloody misencounter

The Department of Justice yesterday ordered the filing of criminal charges against three agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and four police officers in connection with a shootout along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City last year.