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    People VS Prajes

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    Prajes met up with Sabayton and SI Tumalon to sell illegal drugs. Prajes did not have the drugs on him, so they went to his father's house nearby where Prajes handed SI Tumalon two packs of shabu totaling 100 grams. When SI Tumalon requested more, Mala provided an additional pack. SI Tumalon then gave money to Prajes and Mala for the drugs. Upon receiving the money, SI Tumalon revealed himself as an NBI agent. Laboratory tests confirmed the substances were shabu. The court ruled the NBI complied with chain of custody requirements given the situation, as marking at the house was not possible due to interference from neighbors rallying for the accused.

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    Prajes met up with Sabayton and SI Tumalon to sell illegal drugs. Prajes did not have the drugs on him, so they went to his father's house nearby where Prajes handed SI Tumalon two packs of shabu totaling 100 grams. When SI Tumalon requested more, Mala provided an additional pack. SI Tumalon then gave money to Prajes and Mala for the drugs. Upon receiving the money, SI Tumalon revealed himself as an NBI agent. Laboratory tests confirmed the substances were shabu. The court ruled the NBI complied with chain of custody requirements given the situation, as marking at the house was not possible due to interference from neighbors rallying for the accused.

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    Prajes met up with Sabayton and SI Tumalon to sell illegal drugs. Prajes did not have the drugs on him, so they went to his father's house nearby where Prajes handed SI Tumalon two packs of shabu totaling 100 grams. When SI Tumalon requested more, Mala provided an additional pack. SI Tumalon then gave money to Prajes and Mala for the drugs. Upon receiving the money, SI Tumalon revealed himself as an NBI agent. Laboratory tests confirmed the substances were shabu. The court ruled the NBI complied with chain of custody requirements given the situation, as marking at the house was not possible due to interference from neighbors rallying for the accused.

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    Prajes met up with Sabayton and SI Tumalon to sell illegal drugs. Prajes did not have the drugs on him, so they went to his father's house nearby where Prajes handed SI Tumalon two packs of shabu totaling 100 grams. When SI Tumalon requested more, Mala provided an additional pack. SI Tumalon then gave money to Prajes and Mala for the drugs. Upon receiving the money, SI Tumalon revealed himself as an NBI agent. Laboratory tests confirmed the substances were shabu. The court ruled the NBI complied with chain of custody requirements given the situation, as marking at the house was not possible due to interference from neighbors rallying for the accused.

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    PEOPLE VS PRAJES

    FACTS: Prajes met up with Sabayton and SI Tumalon in a makeshift house in


    Kinasang-an, where Mala later joined them. Since Prajes had not brought with him the
    illegal drugs to be sold, the group proceeded to his father’s house which was only 15 to
    20 meters away from the makeshift house 8 and there, SI Tumalon received the illegal
    drugs from Prajes.While they were at the ground floor of the house, Prajes handed to SI
    Tumalon two packs of shabu having a total weight of 100 grams. When SI Tumalon
    pointed out that he needed 200 grams, Prajes instructed Mala to produce more stock.
    Mala left the house, then later came back with another pack, which he handed to SI
    Tumalon. Thereafter, SI Tumalon gave one bundle of the buy-bust money to Prajes,
    and the other bundle to Mala.9

    Upon the accused-appellants’ receipt of the buy-bust money, SI Tumalon introduced


    himself to them as an NBI agent. Soon thereafter, the other members of the buy-bust
    team arrived. The accused-appellants were handcuffed and brought to the NBI office,
    where their photographs and fingerprints were taken. 11 At the NBI office, SI Tumalon
    handed the buy-bust money and three packs of shabu to SI Saavedra, who placed his
    markings on the packs of shabu. SI Saavedra also prepared the letter-request for
    examination of the illegal drugs, which he personally turned over to Chemist Rommel
    Paglinawan12 of the Forensic Chemistry Section, Central Visayas Regional Office of the
    NBI. A laboratory examination of the three packs sold by the accused-appellants to SI
    Tumalon confirmed that the specimen contained methylamphetamine hydrochloride or
    shabu. An ultraviolet examination performed by the NBI also confirmed the presence of
    fluorescent powder on the accused-appellants’ hands.

    ISSUE: W/N there was sufficient compliance by the NBI operatives with the rule
    on chain of custody.

    RULING: YES. the marking was performed by SA Saavedra only upon the buy-
    bust team’s arrival at the NBI office did not adversely affect the prosecution’s case
    against the accused-appellants. Given the situation at the house where the accused-
    appellants were caught in flagrante delicto and then arrested by the buy-bust team, the
    failure of SA Saavedra to mark the seized drugs at the said site was justified. In his
    testimony before the trial court, SA Minguez described that after the accused-
    appellants’ arrest, their neighbors interfered and rallied for the accused-appellants, even
    compelling members of the buy-bust team inside the house to seek the immediate aid of
    their peers so that they could leave the premises

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