Tag: drugs

Palace to Peter Lim: Surrender or else

(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, Aug. 23, urged Peter Lim to surrender. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the pronouncement days after Judge Gina Bibat-Palamos of the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 65 ordered his arrest on charges of conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading. Lim’s co-accused are self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa, Lovely Impal and Marcelo Adorco, among others. The charges against the group had been junked by a first panel of Department of Justice […]

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Duterte slams policemen, PDEA personnel in Cebu for alleged involvement in illegal drug activities

(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Aug. 21, lamented the alleged involvement of policemen and Philippine Drug Enforcement personnel in Cebu in illegal drug activities, as he reiterated his commitment to put a stop to the drug menace. “The Cebu police are all addicts, even your officials and your PDEA. Imbes na mataas na ang rango ng p***** ina niya, he’s the distributor [of illegal drugs],” he said in a speech before local chief executives […]

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Mexico seizes record 50 tons of meth

    MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican marines seized a record 50 tons of crystal meth from a drug lab in the state of Sinaloa, authorities said Friday. The military said it detected the lab in the town of Alcoyonqui, near the state capital Culiacan, and raided it on Thursday. “A clandestine narco-lab and two underground store rooms were secured and dismantled, with approximately 50 tons of processed crystal meth in solid and liquid […]

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Drug possession raps filed vs three lawyers nabbed in Makati bar

(Eagle News) — Drug possession charges were filed by the Makati Police against the three lawyers who were arrested during an inspection of a Makati bar on Thursday. The charges for “constructive possession” of the illegal substances were apart from the charges for violation of an ordinance prohibiting anyone from crossing a police line, for obstruction of justice, and resistance and disobedience to authorities charges filed against Lenie Rocel Rocha, Jan Vincent Soliven, and Romulo Bernard Alarkon. […]

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Makati court to immigration department: Issue hold departure order vs Peter Lim

(Eagle News) — The Makati Regional Trial Court has granted the Department of Justice’s request for a hold departure order to be issued against alleged drug lord Peter Lim. Acting Branch 65 Presiding Judge Gina Bibat-Palamos directed the Bureau of Immigration to issue the HDO, as requested by the DOJ in an ex-parte motion,  noting that Lim was a flight risk. Only State Prosecutor Herbert Calvin Abugan was present at the hearing on the ex-parte […]

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Malaysian ‘Iceman’ sentenced to death in Thailand

  BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — A Malaysian drug dealer dubbed the “Iceman” was sentenced to death Thursday by a court in Thailand after he was convicted of running a narcotics network that funnelled huge profits into legitimate businesses. Tun Hung Seong was arrested in April last year after a tipoff that he had hired a man to smuggle nearly 300 kilogrammes of crystal meth — known as ice — through the violence-scarred south. Investigators believe […]

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Hontiveros wants National Day of Remembrance for Kian delos Santos, other alleged EJK victims

(Eagle News) — Senator Risa Hontiveros has filed a resolution seeking to declare Aug. 16 as the National Day of Remembrance in commemoration of what she said were the extra-judicial killings in the government’s war on drugs. “We have the duty to remember. Amid the deluge of fake news and the systemic attempt at data obfuscation and revisionism to cover up the thousands who have died under President (Rodrigo) Duterte’s brutal drug war, we must […]

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Trillanes tests negative for illegal drug use; challenges Duterte, his kin to undergo drug test, too

(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV challenged the family of President Rodrigo Duterte to undergo a drug test, after he tested negative for illegal drugs, based on results of a surprise drug test conducted in the Senate. “Kailan kaya magpapadrug-test ang mga Dutertes?” he asked, after posting a picture on his Twitter account of an East Ave. Medical Center report that said he was negative for cocaine, ecstacy, metamphetamine, morphine, and tetrahydrocannabinol. In July, Senate President […]

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Rookie cop nabbed in buy-bust operation in Taguig

By Earlo Bringas Eagle News Service A policeman was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Taguig on Wednesday, Aug. 15. Police said P01 Jeffrey Amador, who was assigned at PCP1 until he was relieved, was nabbed by operatives of the Southern Police District drug unit after his own wife Michelle reported his activities. Michelle said her husband would hurt her every time she called him out for his illegal activities. Seized from the suspect were […]

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Three, including alleged son of comedian, nabbed in buy-bust operation in QC

(Eagle News)——Three people, including the alleged son of a comedian, were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Quezon City on Friday, Aug. 10. Nabbed by operatives of the Station Drug Enforcement Unit on Road 8 were Michael Clarion, alleged son of comedian Dinky Doo; and Junard Salas. Salas and Clarion, the police said, yielded 300 grams of marijuana worth P30,000. A third suspect, Jerome “Rom” Lorenzo, was arrested in a follow-up operation in Clarion’s residence, […]

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Three alleged drug pushers nabbed in QC; over P7 million worth of party drugs, shabu seized

(Eagle News) — Over P7 million worth of party drugs and shabu were seized from three individuals in a buy-bust operation in Quezon City on Wednesday night. According to the police, seized from Hazel Grace Antonio, 21; Rafael Antonio, 21; and Warren Echano, 34; were 2,756 ecstasy tablets worth P4, 134,000; 248 ecstasy capsules worth P496,000; eight bottles of liquid ecstasy worth P250,000; a container with six liters of liquid ecstasy worth P1,200,000; and 100 […]

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News in photo: Mugshot of Councilor Ricardo “Ardot” Parojinog

(Eagle News)–Ozamiz Councilor Ricardo Parojinog underwent a booking procedure in Camp Crame on Saturday, July 28, upon his arrival from Taiwan where he was arrested for  using fake documents. Parojinog is facing charges for murder, illegal possession of firearms and illegal possession of explosives. He is the brother of Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog Sr., who was among those killed in a bloody raid by police in July last year, that prompted the councilor to go into […]

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