Latest Breaking News On - Manila the court of appeals ca has acquitteda man who stumbled his way intoa drug buy bust in quezon city five years ago ina resolution dated february 22 and released on wednesday - Page 1 : comparemela.com
MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) has acquitted a man who stumbled his way into a drug buy-bust in Quezon City five years ago. In a resolution dated February 22 and released on Wednesday, the court acquitted Robin Bulan after Evelyn Santos, his co-accused in the drug charges, was acquitted in 2020. Santos was arrested in a buy-bust by Quezon City police officers on June 27, 2017, following reports of widespread sale of shabu by a certain "Bebe Komang" who later turned out to be Santos at the back of a market in Barangay Apolonio Samson. In the middle of the drug transaction between undercover policemen and Santos, police claimed that Bulan approached Santos and asked Santos, "Ate, yung basura ko ("Sister, where is my trash?"), using the term to refer to shabu and thereafter was handed a sachet of white substance by Santos. The two were charged and subsequently convicted by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 226 in April 2019. Santos who was sentenced