BACOLOD CITY —- A judge in Negros Oriental has found five agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) guilty of indirect contempt of court in connection with an alleged fake buy-bust operation in Barangay Looc, Dumaguete City.
Judge Amelia Lourdes Mendoza of the Regional Trial Court Branch 34 sentenced PDEA agents Nelson Muchuelas, May Ann Carmelo, Jose Anthony Juanites, Cheryl Mae Villaver, and Realyn Pinpin to six months imprisonment at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Dumaguete and to pay P30,000-fine each.
The court has also issued warrants of arrest for the five agents.
However, since the judgment for indirect contempt is subject to review, the ju…
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