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PEOPLE Vs. Miguel L. Dela Cruz

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MIGUEL L. DELA CRUZ y LIBUCAN, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 101315 | 1993-05-12

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

Sometime in September, 1990, the Anti-Narcotics Unit of the San Juan Police Station received reports that one Miguel dela Cruz was engaged in the sale of shabu in Santa Lucia Street, San Juan, Metro Manila. It appears that some of the members of that Unit had already been hearing about dela Cruz, a.k.a. "Luga," although they had not yet seen him personally. Corporal Jaime Blanco and Patrolman Cesar B. Turingan were assigned to the case.

Blanco and Turingan decided to entrap dela Cruz through a so-called "buy-bust" operation: Turingan would impersonate a shabu buyer; present himself to dela Cruz and ask to...