Itogon driver gets life term for selling shabu

BAGUIO CITY – A driver by occupation was recently sentenced to life imprisonment and a fine of P500,00 after found guilty of selling shabu.

Court records identified him as Tracy “Bidong” N. Lac-amen, 45, of Itogon, Benguet.

Judge Edilberto T. Claravall of Regional Trial Court Branch 60 also penalized Lac-amen with 12 to 20 years imprisonment and P300,00 for possession of illegal drugs.

Lac-amen was arrested on May 5, 2009 in Barangay New Lucban here after selling a sachet of shabu to an agent of the regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.

When frisked by arresting officers, Lac-amen yielded three sachets of the illegal drug.

Earlier, the convict was arrested with one Ronald Estipular on March 9, 1998, at Itogon, Benguet, by local police with 2.21 grams of shabu.

On Jan. 17, 2001, Lac-amen was again apprehended for drug-related violations, this time in Baguio.

A little over a year and a month later, on Feb. 12, 2002, he was nabbed once more for illegal drugs,

On August 14, 2002, he was arrested again at Dominican Hill in Baguio with a certain Billy Eustaquio, by city police.