BACOLOD CITY – For selling five sticks of marijuana to undercover policemen, an amputee was sentenced to life imprisonment Thursday by a regional trial court in Bacolod.

Bacolod Regional Trial Court Judge Edgardo Garvilles sentenced David Nobal Carmona, alias Kamlot, to life imprisonment and fined him P500,000 for the sale of five marijuana sticks, and to serve another 12 to 14 years in prison for possession of five other sticks. He was also fined an additional P300,000.

Carmona, 44, was also ordered to be immediately committed to the national penitentiary.

Police told the court they conducted a buy bust operation in October 2003 and caught Carmona.

Carmona, who lost an arm and a leg to amputation when he was 16 years old, pleaded not guilty and claimed police planted the evidence against him.

But the court said his denial was a “weak form of defense.”

Police said Carmona sold marijuana to high school students in his house.