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BUTUAN City–Authorities riddled a businessman suspected of being a drug lord with bullets during a raid i Purok 4, Cupin Compound, Barangay Lapu-Lapu here on Thursday.

The suspect, Renato Cabrera, succumbed to some 15 bullet wounds all over.

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Cabrera, 52, was mentioned as a suspect when Police Director General Ronald dela Rosa was here in Aug. 16.

Police said Cabrera’s common law wife, Jessa Dalin, 32, was also arrested by the law enforcement team composed of officers and agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.

The raid was carried at around in Cabrera’s home in Purok 4, Cupin Compound in Barangay Lapu-lapu at 5:30 am based on a search warrant issued by Executive Judge Judy Sia-Galvez of the Regional Trial Court in Medina, Misamis Oriental.

Authorities said Cabrera was shot because he resisted arrest.

PDEA director for Caraga Gilbert Buenafe  said Cabrera fired shots at the raiding team first.

Authorities seized from Cabrera’s house 30 grams of suspected shabu.

Cabrera’s common law wife and her mother said the suspect was unarmed and there was no way he could have fought some 20 armed men who conducted the raid.

They also claimed that law enforcers “planted” a gun in order to justify the “overkill.”

Dalin said Cabrera woke up early and had just come from the toilet when a horde of armed men barged into the master’s bedroom and brought Cabrera to another room.

“After bringing my husband to another room and locking the door, we heard volleys of gunfire. The armed men went out, and we saw my husband bathed in his own blood,” Dalin alleged.

Dalin said Cabrera had long ceased to be involved in illegal drugs, and had mended his ways. She said he even responded to the “Öplan Tokhang” campaign just to come clean.

She said Cabrera was busy with his lumber and Internet business. (ben serrano)

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