Teen gets life term for sale of shabu

BAGUIO CITY – A 16-year-old female was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court here after being found guilty of selling shabu to drug enforcement agents.

In an 18-page court decision dated Jan. 10, 2012, the convicted was also ordered to pay a fine of P500,000 for violating Republic Act 9165, the new drug law.

Court records revealed in the evening of June 14, 2009, at Pinewood St., Crystal Cave here, Atifah Dajani(not her real name), 16, native of Marawi City, Lanao Del Sur and a resident of No. 120 Pinewood St., Crystal Cave tried to sell 0.18 grams of methamphetamine hydrochloride, a dangerous drug popularly known as “shabu” valued at P1,500 to an agent of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency–Cordillera who acted as buyer.

PDEA Cordillera director Gil Cesario P. Castro said their records bared there had been 32 drug law violators convicted in 2011 in the Cordillera.

Out of this, 72 percent of were in Baguio City, 19 percent in Benguet and nine percent in Mountain Province.

Of the 32 drug cases that led to convictions, 59 percent were on shabu and the other 41 percent on marijuana.

Three of the cases were filed in 2006, another three were filed in 2008, eleven were filed in 2009, eleven in 2010 and the remaining four filed last year.

Further, 47 percent of the afore-said drug conviction cases were for sale or delivery of dangerous drugs, 47 percent on possession of illegal drugs, three percent on possession of paraphernalia for dangerous drugs while three percent were on use of dangerous drugs.