Its back to jail for former convict PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009
MANILA, Philippines -- To jail and back. A kidnap-for-ransom suspect, who was convicted but later released after the appellate court reversed a Makati court decision, is headed back to jail after he was sentenced to life imprisonment Thursday for possession of illegal drugs. Judge Edwin Sorongon of Mandaluyong RTC Branch 214 found Gabriel Serafin Saulo guilty beyond reasonable doubt for violation of Republic Act 9165 Section 11, or possession of illegal drugs, and sentenced him to life imprisonment and to pay a fine of P500,000. Sorongon, who had just been promoted associate justice of the Court of Appeals, wrote the decision in October, but the order was released only the other day. The judge also found Saulo guilty for possessing drug paraphernalia and sentenced him to a jail term of six months to one day to four years, and to pay a P10,000 fine. Sorongan said Saulo failed to present proof to rebut evidence offered by the National Bureau of Investigation. Court records showed that NBI agents, armed with a search warrant, found 50 grams of shabu when they raided Saulo’s condominium unit located on the seventh floor of Cityland Pioneer building along Pioneer Street in Mandaluyong City on Feb. 4, 2006. The NBI also found in his condo drug paraphernalia such as an improvised burner, strips of aluminum foil, an electronic weighing scale and transparent plastic that showed traces of shabu. The raid was a result of a four-month surveillance operation after the NBI received information that the suspect was engaged in the sale of prohibited drugs. Earlier news reports revealed that Saulo served five years at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City after he was tried and convicted by a Makati court in 1992 for the kidnapping of a Chinese businessman and for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. Saulo was later released after his conviction was reversed by the Court of Appeals, the reports added. By Nancy C. Carvajal Philippine Daily Inquirer
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