ILOILO City – A former drug convict found himself behind bars again.
Police arrested Emmanuel Sison in a buy-bust operation on March 30, Good Friday in Barangay Baldoza, La Paz district.
Sison, a 56-year-old resident of the same village, was hauled to the detention facility of the La Paz police station.
La Paz police station officers and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region 6 agents staged the operation at around 6:30 p.m.
Authorities said Sison sold to an undercover police operative a big sachet of shabu worth P3,000.
Another plastic pack of the same substance and drug paraphernalia were seized from him.
Sison faces charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
The suspect was previously convicted of the same offense that led to his detention at the New Bilibid Prison, said Senior Inspector Val Ladublan, La Paz police chief.
Sison was arrested also in a buy-bust operation in 2006. He was later meted a life sentence and remitted to the national penitentiary in Muntinlupa City, said Ladublan.
But a court granted his appeal and his sentence was lowered to three years, leading to his eventual release, the officer said.
Sison stayed in Manila for several years until last year, said Ladublan. “He (suspect) went home last year, and we have learned that he returned to the drug trade.”
Sison denied owning the drugs seized from him.
“I was feeding our pet dog when they arrested me,” the suspect told Panay News in Hiligaynon.
Sison suggested that the operatives planted evidence.
“Those are not mine. They searched our house but did not find anything. They only laid out the items here at the police station,” he said.
Sison insisted that he has fully disengaged from drug trafficking.
“I don’t peddle drugs anymore,” he said. “I was incarcerated for the same offense in 2006 but I never joined the trade again. I went back home just a few months ago.”
A spot report from the La Paz police station stated that Sison was with an unidentified male companion at the time of the operation.
His companion had a “.9mm Ingram machine pistol with magazine but without ammunition.”
He drew out the firearm tucked in his waist and threw it into an abandoned house, and escaped, the police report stated.
Asked about the firearm, Sison said, “Indi na akon ang armas. Sa pihak balay na nila nakuha, sa gunsmith.” He did not elaborate.
Citing intelligence information, police said Sison gets illegal drugs from a supplier in Manila.
The supplies are sent to Sison via roll-on, roll-off (ro-ro) vessels and dropped off in Barangay Caticlan, Malay, Aklan where ro-ro vessels dock, the police added./PN
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