By Rey E. Requejo

An agent of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency yesterday admitted that it took several hours after the sting operations on the ?Alabang Boys? before they could do a full inventory of all the evidence they recovered.

At the continuation of the probe of the Alabang Boys conducted by a fact-finding committee, Intelligence Officer I Jacqueline Sogoc, evidence custodian, said they did not immediately conduct an inventory because they had to wait for the parents of suspects Richard Brodett, Joseph Tecson and Jorge Joseph.

Sogoc said she was holding the items from the time they recovered the evidence from the suspects until they arrived at the PDEA headquarters.

Sogoc said she placed the confiscated items from the first operation in a steel cabinet when they arrived at PDEA office, and the items were kept there for nine hours.

They later conducted inventories on the evidence taken from the suspects, with the parents of Brodett and Tecson looking on.

But Joseph was not present when the items allegedly taken from him were inventoried, Sogoc told the panel, chaired by former Supreme Court Associate Justice Carolina Grino-Aquino.

Sogoc said the clutch bag recovered from Brodett was not presented as evidence to the prosecutor during the inquest.

Sogoc said the different drug items were separately taken from the suspects in two drug operations. The first operation yielded an envelope containing six sachets of shabu in tablet form from Joseph. Each sachet contained 10 tablets of shabu, she said.

In a separate sting operation a few hours later, Brodett and Joseph were allegedly caught selling drugs.