The Catanduanes police reveled last week in the wake of the apprehension of the alleged leader of the notorious Spider robbery gang in a buy-bust operation in Virac.

Alexander “Alek-Alek” Aguilar of barangay Marcelo Alberto is being held without bail following the filing of a criminal charge against him for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 before the Regional Trial Court last Friday. He had allegedly sold to an undercover policeman two sachets of methamphetamine hydrochloride weighing 0.037 gram during the operation two days earlier.

According to documents filed with the Court, a member of the Catanduanes Provincial Police Public Safety Company was informed by an intelligence operative, quoting a confidential civilian agent, that Aguilar was peddling dangerous drugs. Senior Inspector Jose Michael Aurelio and his men joined personnel of the Virac police station led by Inspector Cocoy San Jose in mounting the operation against Aguilar.

At 8:35 P.M. of July 25, the team posted themselves at the vicinity of the welcome sign at Calatagan, where five minutes later, the poseur-buyer and the agent arrived to wait for the target who arrived on board a motorcycle. Upon an pre-arranged signal by the buyer, the policemen swarmed around Aguilar, who reportedly threw the marked money and the shabu sachets to the ground and the nearby canal.

The police recovered the eight 100-peso bills and confiscated the suspect’s Nokia cellphone and a Honda Wave motorcycle (EG-7931).