The two suspects who were involved in a police shootout during a drug bust at Malaspina Street in Barangay Villamonte, Bacolod City, on Monday, April 26, were said to be “big drug distributors.”
The suspects identified as Xiever Louis “Alyas Boss” Rosales of Barangay Bata and his live-in partner, Hilda Trujillo, of Barangay Banago sold four sachets of suspected shabu worth P44,500 to a police poseur buyer.
When the poseur buyer declared that he was a police officer, Rosales allegedly fired at the policemen, who retaliated.
The shootout led to the death of Trujillo, while Rosales was injured after sustaining gunshot wounds.
In a statement, the Police Regional Office-6 said the suspects are “considered as one of the big drug distributors based on the illegal drugs recovered during the operation.”
They were also high-value individuals and allegedly connected to Divinagracia drug group, the statement added.
The operation was developed after Christian Don Tulot, the primary suspect behind the massacre of four family members, including a six-year-old girl, in Barangay Tangub early this month, said that their illegal drugs came from “Alyas Boss,” PRO-6 said.
This prompted the Regional Police Drug Enforcement Unit 6, the operating unit, to monitor the suspects for a month that led to the operation.
During the bust, the suspects yielded two plastic bags containing shabu worth P2.584 million and a .45 caliber pistol.
Rosales is under hospital arrest at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, PRO-6 said.