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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte advised senator Leila de Lima to just answer in court the drug-related charges filed against her at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court by the Department of Justice on Friday, February 17. “She has to face the music. Actually ilang testigo ‘yan (There are several witnesses), it took months to develop the case,” Duterte told reporters during his visit to the wake of soldiers killed in action in Panacan, […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed three separate drug-related charges against Senator Leila de Lima at the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court for her alleged participation in the illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP). The charges filed on Friday, February 17, were for violation of Republic Act No. 9165 or Dangerous Drugs Act, Section 5, penalizing the “sale, trading, administration, dispensation, delivery, distribution and transportation” of illegal drugs. […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News)– Senator Leila De Lima denied accusations that she and Senator Antonio Trillanes had a hand in the stabbing of Jaybee Sebastian at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City last September 2016. In a press statement, she said that the accusations against her and Trillanes are in line with the propaganda thrust of the Duterte administration to pin all the blame on them. “If I were responsible for the stabbing, […]
(Eagle News) – It was New Bilibid Prison inmate Tomas Donina who had linked Senators Leila de Lima and Antonio Trillanes IV to the previous attempt to kill controversial inmate Jaybee Sebastian in September last year. This was the clarification of Department of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II amid denials from De Lima that she was behind any attempt on the life of Sebastian who had earlier linked her to the illegal drug trade […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Convicted killer Rolito Go has asked for the forgiveness of the Maguan Family for killing their 25 year-old then son, Eldon Maguan in a road altercation on 1991, saying it was just an accident, and a mistake he had regretted since. Rolito Go shot dead Eldon, who was an engineering student at De La Salle University (DLSU) on July 2, 1991, when their vehicles nearly bumped each other while travelling […]
(Eagle News) – The Senate started hearing the testimony Wednesday morning (November 23) of Eastern Visayas’s suspected big time drug lord Kerwin Espinosa, as he detailed how he started his illegal drugs business in 2004. He said he first started small and then grew his business with the help of his “upline,” and later his alleged drug protectors. Espinosa said he first started operations in Cebu, and was arrested in 2005. He also spent […]
(Eagle News) – Senator Leila de Lima appealed to authorities to spare her former driver and lover, Ronnie Dayan, from the intense pressure and pain, and to treat him well, saying it was she whom the Duterte administration was really after. “Sa pagkakaaresto kay Ronnie Dayan, umaasa ako sa tamang pagtrato sa kanya ng mga kinauukulan. Ganoon na rin ang panawagan ko sa Pangulo para sa iba pang mga tetestigo laban sa akin katulad […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila De Lima has predicted that suspected Eastern Visayas drug lord Kerwin Espinosa, as well as high-profile inmate Jaybee Sebastian, would sooner or later end up dead, even if they cooperate with the government. De Lima, whom both Espinosa and Sebastian had earlier implicated as having been involved in the illegal drugs business, issued the statement as Kerwin is expected to appear before the Senate inquiry investigating the death of his […]
(Eagle News) — The reason why high-profile inmate Jaybee Sebastian was stabbed during an alleged riot inside the New Bilibid Prison on September 28, was to prevent him from testifying at the congressional inquiry probing the alleged involvement of Senator Leila De Lima on the illegal drug trade at the national penitentiary. This was revealed in an affidavit of NBP inmate Tomas Doniña who was the one who stabbed Sebastian. Doniña’s affidavit was read […]
(Eagle News) — A former policeman who has been detained at the New Bilibid Prisons for the last 15 years testified of how he personally delivered P1.5 million in cash to then former Justice Secretary Leila De Lima placed inside a gift-wrapped shoe carton box. Former Police Officer 3 Engelberto Durano, a member of the Batang Cebu Brotherhood member, told the House committee on Justice hearing that he personally handed over to De Lima […]
(Eagle News)– Because of his delicate health condition, convicted kidnapper and high-profile inmate Jaybee Sebastian failed to attend the resumption of hearings at the House of Representatives on Thursday morning (October 6) regarding the illegal drug anomalies at the national penitentiary. At the start of the hearings in Congress, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said that Sebastian was supposed to appear that morning but that the recommendation of the medical doctor attending to him was […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa expressed his desire to demolish the New Bilibid Prison as he believes that this is the only way to totally suppress the illegal drug trade and operations inside the national penitentiary According to Dela Rosa, the inmates already intimately know the ins and outs of the NBP. They also know how to hide illegal drugs and other contraband every time the PNP […]
