Lawyer supplies shabu to vendors who get nabbed

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Narcotics agents have put under surveillance a lawyer who allegedly supplied shabu to two vegetable vendors they arrested for selling shabu in an entrapment operation here in front of a store at Barangay Cruz Sept. 9.

           

Ronald Allan DG Ricardo, regional director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency identified the vendors as Reynante M. Guimpayan alias “Ung-ga”, 24, of Buguias, Benguet and resident of Cruz, and Rico S. Galao-ey, 33, of Mankayan, Benguet and resident of Balili, Km. 3 in this town.

           

Both vegetable vendors at the Vegetable Trading Post in La Trinidad, Benguet were nabbed around 12:30 midnight.

           

Meanwhile, Emely Cayandag Fama, regional PDEA information officer said the  suspects said they were being supplied with shabu by a lawyer from a law firm known for providing defense lawyers to drug law violators.

           

The suspects traded reportedly  traded.02 grams of shabu for P500 to a narcotics agent.

           

Two more sachets of the prohibited drug and P900 were reportedly confiscated from the suspects. 

           

The confiscated three sachets of shabu were valued at P4,000.

Guimpayan and Galao-ey were charged before the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor here for illegal drugs.