Couple gets life for shabu possession

February 13, 2015 | 12:00am

TUGUEGARAO CITY – A businesswoman and her partner have been sentenced to life imprisonment for possession of 22.56 grams of shabu during a drug sting in San Mariano town in 2003.

Regional Trial Court Branch 16 Judge Isaac de Alban meted the life sentence on Vilma Bautista and her live in partner, Marvin Bulacan in a decision promulgated on Jan. 28.

De Alban also ordered the couple to pay a fine of P400,000 each.

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Couple gets life for shabu possession

ALBAN

BAUTISTA

DE ALBAN

JAN

JUDGE ISAAC

LIFE

MARVIN BULACAN

PARTNER

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT BRANCH

SAN MARIANO

VILMA BAUTISTA

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