Noypi.ph: PDEA NABS SENIOR CITIZEN FOR MARIJUANA POSSESSION

PDEA NABS SENIOR CITIZEN FOR MARIJUANA POSSESSION
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Virginia Magallanes on 02/08/2012 23:05:00

A sexagenarian was nabbed by elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency
(PDEA) for selling one brick of marijuana to a poseur buyer two days ago in
Tuguegarao City, Cagayan.

Drug-pushing knows no age.  A sexagenarian was nabbed by elements of the
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) for selling one brick of marijuana to
a poseur buyer two days ago in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan.   The arrested suspect
was identified as Oscar Addun, 61, married, and a resident of Guyabano Street,
Barangay Pengue Ruyu, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan.
Addun faces charges for violation of Section 6 (Sale of Dangerous Drugs) Article
II of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. 
Elements of PDEA Regional Office II, under Director Juvenal Azurin, scheduled a
transaction with Addun and conducted an operation to entrap the suspect.  
Recovered from Addun was one brick of dried marijuana leaves with fruiting tops
wrapped in a magazine leaf.   Upon the pre-arranged signal, PDEA agents arrested
the suspect and is now temporarily under the custody of PDEA RO-II.
Confiscated evidence was submitted for quantitative and qualitative laboratory
examination.