DUMAGUETE CITY -- Police arrested on Monday afternoon an ex-convict for allegedly selling shabu, the same crime that he was charged with five years ago.
Crispin Merced Lumaya, 38, single, of San Jose Extension, Taclobo, Dumaguete City, fell in a buy-bust operation held by the City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU) headed by Senior Insp. Van Joel Tingson, under the supervision of the city police chief, Supt. Jonathan Pineda.
Authorities seized from Lumaya about 202 grams of suspected high-grade shabu granules, plus a digital weighing scale, disposal lighters, and other illegal drugs paraphernalia. Also recovered from his possession was the marked buy-bust money.
Lumaya was arrested enflagrante delicto, or in the act of doing the crime, while handing suspected shabu to a police-poseur buyer along the road in Purok 5, Barangay Batinguel, on Monday afternoon.
Lumaya was supposed to visit a friend in Batinguel.
An inventory was conducted along the road in the presence of barangay councilmen Roger Catan, chairman of the peace and order committee of the barangay, Ramram Flores, and Arnold Catalan.
In an interview, the suspect refused to give details, aside from saying that he was released from the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa only in March this year after the Supreme Court decided in his favor on two counts of violation of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act. (PNA)
