Ranilo Almario

BALANGA CITY, BATAAN: A suspected drug pusher was slain by a combined team from the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in a buy-bust here on Friday evening. Supt. Byron Allatog, Balanga City police chief, said Ranilo Almario of Barangay Cataning, this city, died when he fought it out with government operatives after selling a sachet of shabu to a police-poseur-buyer. Recovered from suspect were a caliber .45 revolver with live ammunition, 18 heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets of suspected shabu and the marked money. Almario was on board a white motorcycle during the buy-bust at 9:20 in the evening on a road at the back of the Bataan People’s Center.