In an eight-page court decision rendered by Judge Antonio C. Reyes of the First Judicial Region Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 61, Baguio City, Del Mundo was found guilty beyond reasonable doubt of possession of dangerous drugs and thereby sentenced to suffer the penalty of imprisonment of 12 years and one day to 20 years, and a fine of P400,000.

Del Mundo and her sibling, Willy Cabonitalla Borce,were members of a long existing and wide-ranging local drug group in the Cordillera Region. Both had been in the Target List of Drug Personalities.

The duo were apprehended on August 19, 2009 during the implementation of the search warrant at their house by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency – Cordillera Administrative Region.

Seized in the warranted search were shabu, marijuana hashish, drug paraphernalia, and live bullets for a caliber .45 pistol.

Gloria Del Mundo, married, high school graduate, businesswoman and native of Abra, was apprehended earlier by members of the Baguio City Police Office Drug Enforcement Unit, on July 4, 2006. She was then nabbed with another kin, Richard Guieb y Borce, where the duo sold 0.1 gram of shabu to the policeman who posed as buyer. They were acquitted on August 1, 2007 by Judge Reyes, the same judge who convicted her this time.

Meanwhile, Willy Borce, 46, married, construction laborer and native of Baguio City, had been previously convicted and served 13 years at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City.

The criminal cases for violations of Sections 11 (Possession of Dangerous Drugs) and 12 (Possession of Equipment, Instrument, Apparatus and Other Paraphernalia for Dangerous Drugs) of Republic Act 9165 (The Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002), and Presidential Decree 1866, or illegal possession of ammunition, against Borce are still being heard before the drug court in Baguio City and the Fourth Branch of the Municipal Trial Court in Cities, respectively.*(PDEA//PIA-CAR)