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(Eagle News)—Bureau of Corrections Chief Nicanor Faeldon on Friday, Dec. 14, vowed to resign if his son was proven to have links to illegal drugs. “What I can assure everybody is if my son is involved in any way, kahit user lang, I will… hunt him down. Ako na ang paparusa diyan,” he added in a television interview, referring to Nicanor Faeldon Jr. The younger Faeldon was nabbed in a suspected drug den in Naga […]
(Eagle News)—Authorities on Friday, Dec. 14, arrested the son of Bureau of Corrections chief Nicanor Faeldon in a suspected drug den in Naga. Nicanor Faeldon Jr. was nabbed together with his girlfriend, her father and another male, after at least seven sachets of suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu, were found in the house where they were in in Barangay Mabolo, a radio report said. The authorities had been armed with a search warrant. Drug-related charges […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Richard Gordon on Monday, Dec. 3, said no charges would be recommended against former Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña in connection with the entry of shabu in the country allegedly via magnetic lifters. According to Gordon, the blue ribbon committee which he chairs, however, would recommend charges against sacked Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Deputy Director Ismael Fajardo and dismissed Senior Supt. Eduardo Acierto. “Lack of commitment to the job, that makes the criminal […]
(Eagle News) — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Thursday, Nov. 29, hailed the conviction of three policemen by a Caloocan court for the murder of Kian delos Santos, saying it shows, among others, that “justice is blind.” It “does not distinguish whether one is in a position of authority or not,” Año said, following the Caloocan Regional Trial Court Branch 125’s decision to sentence P03 Arnel Oares and P01 Jeremias Pereda and Jerwin Cruz to reclusion perpetua […]
(Eagle News)–A human rights group on Thursday, Nov. 30, lauded a Caloocan court’s decision to convict three policemen for the killing of Kian Delos Santos in 2017. But while the Human Rights Watch said it was “heartened” by the decision of Branch 125 Judge Rodolfo Azcuna “a triumph of justice and accountability,” it was “wary” P03 Arnel Oares, P01 Jerwin Cruz and P01 Jeremias Pereda would escape liability “because (President Rodrigo) Duterte has promised to […]
(Eagle News) — Several senators hailed on Thursday, Nov. 30, the decision of a Caloocan court to convict three policemen for the murder of Kian Delos Santos. “Ngayong umaga, nagwagi ang hustisya.. Isang pagpapatunay na totoo ang karahasan ng ilang myembro ng kapulisan. Isang pagpapatunay na nagsisinungaling ang ilang alagad ng batas,” Senator Francis Pangilinan said in a statement issued after Branch 125 Rodolfo Azucena sentenced to reclusion perpetua P03 Arnel Oares, P01 Jerwin Cruz and […]
(Eagle News) — Former Customs chief Isidro Lapeña on Friday, Nov. 23, filed libel charges against former Customs X-ray chief Lourdes Mangaoang. The charges lodged before the Taguig Prosecutors Office stem from Mangaoang’s testimony before the Senate hearing the P11-billion shabu shipment that was allegedly smuggled inside the country that he said destroyed his reputation. Mangaoang had said Lapeña, now the director-general of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, had been coaching witnesses being invited to […]
(Eagle News) — A brother-in-law of Interior Undersecretary Martin Diño has been arrested for a drug-related offense. A radio report said Manuel Bautista was nabbed in a buy-bust operation conducted by the Marikina Police in a house in Barangay Concepcion on Nov. 12. The report, quoting Marikina police chief Senior Supt. Roger Quezada, said arrested with Bautista was one Marife Wisi, the alleged owner of the house. The police said five sachets containing suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride were […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has acquitted a man convicted of selling shabu after it found the police who had arrested him had violated the chain of custody of illegal drugs as required by the law. In acquitting Federico Señeres. Jr., and therefore reversing an earlier Court of Appeals decision that affirmed a Taguig court ruling, the third division said the policemen who arrested him in 2011 failed to comply with the original provision of Section 21 […]
(Eagle News)—-Fifty one percent of Filipinos support a mandatory drug testing for Grade 4 students and older, a Social Weather Stations survey said. According to the Third Quarter 2018 Social Weather Survey fielded from September 15 to 23, of the 51% who agreed, 31% strongly agree and 20% somewhat agree. Thirty six percent disagreed (24% strongly disagree, 12% somewhat disagree), and 13% are undecided about the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency proposal, the survey said. According […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Nov. 7, said he would activate a national task force against illegal drugs, as he reiterated that illegal drugs would play a role in the 2019 elections. He said the task force, which would be activated following the issuance of a memorandum, would be composed of the Philippine National Police, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine Coast Guard, and others. “Tignan mo ngayong eleksyon, makita ninyo ‘yan. Drug money […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, Oct. 11, denied a media report another Filipina was on death row for drug smuggling. The Inquirer in particular quoted Philippine Ambassador to Indonesia Leehiong Wee as saying it was monitoring the situation of the Filipina in Semarang, Central Java. In a statement, the DFA said only Mary Jane Veloso, who is detained in a prison in Yogyakarta, was given the death sentence after being […]
