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???????December 12, 1997 the hotel. After accused-appellant alighted from the car carrying a sealed ZestO juice box, SPO2Nulud and PO2 Nunag hurriedly accosted him and introduced thems
elves aspolice officers. As accused-appellant pulled out his wallet, a smalltran
sparent plastic bag with a crystalline substance protruded from his rightback po
cket. Forthwith, SPO2 Nulud subjected him to a body search whichyielded twenty (
20) pieces of live .22 caliber firearm bullets from his leftback pocket. When SP
O2 Nunag peeked into the contents of the Zest-O box,he saw that it contained a c
rystalline substance. SPO2 Nulud instantlyconfiscated the small transparent plas
tic bag, the Zest-O juice box, thetwenty (20) pieces of .22 caliber firearm bull
ets and the