Driver, conductor caught taking drugs in parked bus

A bus driver and his conductor were caught in the act of using illegal drugs inside a passenger bus in Navotas City on Tuesday afternoon.

Navotas police chief Senior Supt. Conrado Gongon identified the two as bus driver Eric Necio, 28, of Zambales province and Prince Martin Corpuz, 26, a conductor from Caloocan City.

The pair work for Joanna Jesh Transport Bus Corp., based on ID cards recovered from them, Gongon said. They were arrested at the Centennial Bus Terminal at 4 p.m. on Tuesday.

Police records said that a team of policemen patrolling the area caught the two sniffing methamphetamine hydrochloride or “shabu” inside a Joanna Jesh bus (TYF 368) plying the FTI-Navotas route as it was parked inside the terminal.

Lawmen immediately arrested the two who yielded two plastic sachets containing traces of suspected shabu, a lighter and four strips of aluminum foil containing traces of drugs.

Also found in their possession were P3,100 in cash, their wallets containing government IDs, and a traffic violation ticket issued by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority.