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Deborah Sun's Daughter Gets 8 Years For Drugs?
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n937/a12.html
Newshawk: Tom Smith
Pubdate: Thu, 01 Jul 2004
Source: Manila Bulletin (The Philippines)
Contact: bulletin@mb.com.ph
Website: http://www.mb.com.ph/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/906
Author: Herbert Osio Jr., Correspondent
DEBORAH SUN'S DAUGHTER GETS 8 YEARS FOR DRUGS
A PASIG City court sentenced the daughter of former actress Deborah Sun
to eight years imprisonment after authorities caught her, along with
three others, holding a shabu session inside her house in San Juan four
years ago.
In a 13-page decision Judge Celso Lavina of the Pasig RTC Branch 71 gave
Lailanie Salvador, of 125-B F. Roxas Street, Barangay Tibagan, San
Juan, the longer jail term while her companions, Anna Marie Gomez, Maria
Lourdes Silverio and Ramon Mapili were each sentenced to only four years
imprisonment.
The court gave credence to the testimony of the members of the defunct
Presidential Antiorga-nized Crime Task Force who raided Salvador's house
on August 27, 1999, and recovered 10.2 grams of methamphetamine
hydrochloride ( shabu ), which the four were using.
The court dismissed the group's alibi that the antinarcotics agents
planted the evidence on them as the "weakest defense" and
ruled that it cannot prevail over the positive identification of the
prosecution witnesses.
Mapili, Silverio and Gomez also claimed to investigators that they were
only in the house to pick up the personal belongings of Salvador's
former boyfriend, a certain Titus Diaz.
The seven-man team of the task force's antinarcotics unit raided
Salvador's house on the strength of a search warrant issued by Judge
Ralph Lantion of the Manila RTC. The operatives surprised the four
at the second floor of the house and recovered the shabu paraphernalia
the suspects threw away in their surprise. Also taken from
Salvador were .28 grams of marijuana fruit tops, which was the reason
for her heavier sentence.
Convicts Silverio and Gomez reportedly jumped bail during the trial.
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