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BY MAE SINGUAY and CYRUS GARDE
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BACOLOD City – A 17-year-old boy is facing charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
The resident of Barangay 30 was arrested on Tuesday after selling suspected shabu to an undercover police officer in Barangay Taculing.
The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) classified him as a Level 2 high-value target.
He was also No. 1 in the watch list of drug personalities of Police Station 6.
About 19 grams of suspected shabu valued at P200,000 were seized from the suspect, according to Senior Superintendent Jack Wanky, acting BCPO director.
Operatives from Police Station 6 and the BCPO Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) staged the sting operation against the minor. They also seized from him a Toyota Vios sedan and the P500 buy-bust money.
The suspect was placed in the custody of the BCPO Women and Children Protection Desk.
He was subject to an inquest proceeding at the City Prosecutor’s Office yesterday.
Specifically, the boy is facing charges for violation of sections 5 (sale) and 12 (possession) of Republic Act (RA) 9165.
The suspect claimed that he was married with a nine-month-old child.
BCPO-DEU head Inspector Adrian James Albaytar demanded from the suspect’s family his birth certificate to verify his age.
From what the police so far gathered, the suspect’s parents own a cellphone shop at the Libertad public market.
The suspect confessed to the police that he had been selling drugs for a year already.
RA 9344, or the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006, generally exempts children in conflict with the law (below 15 years old) from criminal liability.
Those above 15 years old but below 18 years old shall be exempted from criminal liability and subjected to an intervention program unless they acted with discernment, the law stated.
In this case, such child shall be “subjected to the appropriate proceedings in accordance with this Act,” RA 9344 stated./PN
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