FIRST ON RAPPLER. Provincial Prosecutor Edna Pitao-Honor dismisses the complaint against Maria Umpacan and her husband Rodolfo for lack of probable cause, citing loopholes and inconsistencies in the operation conducted by authorities.
TACLOBAN, Philippines – The Biliran Provincial Prosecutor’s Office junked the criminal complaints against Department of Education employee Maria Umpacan, who was nabbed in what authorities claimed was a buy-bust operation last January 31.
Umpacan, who works as an administrative assistant at DepEd, was released from detention Friday. Meanwhile, her husband eluded arrest during the supposed buy-bust. Personnel from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Biliran and Kawayan Municipal Police arrested Umpacan at her residence during a “buy-bust operation” at Barangay Masagaosao, Kawayan, Biliran.they confiscated two sachets of shabu weighing 0.0846 gram, with an estimated market value of Php575.
She found that Umpacan “had no participation whatsoever in the alleged buy-bust operation and the allegation that it was her who turned over the shabu and then finally received the money from Rodolfo Umpacan cannot be given probative value.”
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