ILOILO City – Food that visitors bring to jails could be concealing shabu, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Western Visayas warned wardens.
Jail Superintendent Gilbert Peremne, BJMP deputy regional director for administration, said visitors and the items they bring inside the jail must be thoroughly checked.
“We want all jails free from contrabands,” he stressed.
This is why the BJMP conducts surprise inspections, according to Peremne.
The government’s continuing operation against illegal drugs is making drug traffickers more creative to avoid getting caught. Just this Jan. 11 in Cebu City, according to Peremne, policemen recovered from an arrested suspect P600,000 worth of shabu concealed inside a bread.
The modus is actually not new. In March 2017 four sachets of shabu were discovered inside two bath soaps seized during a raid of a house in Barangay Nanga, Pototan, Iloilo.
The subject of the raid was a personnel of the Iloilo District Jail cooperative store.
Two Safeguard bath soaps were drilled with holes in the middle and shabu sachets were stuffed inside./PN
