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BY RUBY SILUBRICO
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ILOILO City – Suspected drug paraphernalia were seized from a woman visiting a live-in partner at the Iloilo City District Jail – Male Dormitory in Barangay Ungka, Jaro district.
The 32-year-old Arby Jen Hermano of Barangay Sooc, Arevalo was arrested and taken to the Jaro police station.
The warden, Jail Superintendent Vicente Papelera, said the suspected drug paraphernalia were inside a small food container.
Hermano went to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology-managed facility to visit inmate Mark Sucobos, who was detained for a drug offense.
She brought with her a food container when she entered the detention facility around 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 25.
Senior Jail Officer 1 Jasmine Demonteverde frisked her. When the jail officer checked the food container, she found inside 45 empty plastic packs, a headset and aluminum foil.
Hermano told the jail officers she did not know the food container had those inside.
A certain “Onyok” Gale of Barangay Benedicto, Jaro asked her to bring the food container to another inmate, Oliver Tubongbanua, who was also arrested for a drug offense just this June, she claimed.
The attempt to bring those items suggested a plan to repack and/or peddle, or even use prohibited drugs inside the facility, Papelera said.
“Maybe they were trying to sneak in drug paraphernalia first,” he said. “If they succeed, they would bring in illegal drugs next.”
Papelera stressed that he would always tell his jail officers to thoroughly check everything the visitors take with them.
The management was wary of various ways prohibited drugs may be sneaked into the facility. Papelera said these include using footwear to hide the contraband.
Thus, Papelera ordered his personnel to make all visitors remove their footwear for inspection and leave them to the officers, and use jail-provided slippers instead./PN
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