ORMOC CITY-A newly identified drug suspect was arrested by the Station Drug Enforcement Team (SDET) at about 5:14 pm in Barangay Marvel, Isabel, Leyte.
Police Major Luis Hatton, OIC-chief of police, identified the suspect as Alger Rojas, also known as “Aging,” 49, married, unemployed, and a resident of Marvel.
Rojas is listed as a street-level individual on the SDET’s drug watch list.
Recovered from the suspect during the October 29 operation was a sachet containing a white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu, purchased by an undercover operative for P1,000.
During a body search, conducted in the presence of law-mandated witnesses, officers found three additional sachets of suspected shabu concealed within a folded 1/8-sized bond paper, along with a marked P1,000 bill used for the operation.
The Isabel SDET estimated the total recovered illegal drugs to weigh 0.532 grams, with an approximate street value of P3,617.60.
Rojas was informed of the reason for his arrest and advised of his constitutional rights in a language he understood.
Charges for violations of Section 5 (sale of illegal drugs) and Section 11 (possession of illegal drugs) under Article II of Republic Act 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, have been filed at the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office in Ormoc City.
The suspect is currently detained at the Isabel Municipal Police Station.
(ROBERT DEJON)
Even kings are pelted with mud, why not pelt our leaders, too?
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR III
Our former colonizer Spain has its share of Flooding and Royal-Shaming. The event draws parallel with the recent flooding in the Philippines. It also was a sort of a reminder that the weather has no sacred cows, and all can be affected by its gruesome claws, including Conquistadores and Indios, alike.
Valencia, Espana was flooded in the recent rains and more than 250 people were killed by the onslaught. Last November 3, 2024, King Filipe and Queen Letizia were showered with stones and Mud as the Royals visited the flooded area.The anger was understandable, seeing people with loved ones killed, the behavior can be beyond the usual.
The events unfolding in Valencia is somehow the result of the Butterfly Effect from the floods of Bicolandia, perhaps the tormented souls’ victims of the Conquistadors had pushed the winds unto Europe and the Tropical and Equatorial had channeled the calamitous wind to the Temperate Europe, the result was a disaster perhaps unimaginable by the Spaniards which causes their blood to boil.
Thus, when Queen Letizia and King Felipe (namesake of the Patron of the Expedition of Roy Lopez de Villalobos) came to have an ocular and condole with the people ravaged by the Flood, stones and mud hit their faces from all directions.
The mudslinging in the literal sense is new and surprising. But the same can be seen as precedent. We can actually throw muds to our leaders. If that is possible on a former colonizer it can be possible in ours as its former colony.
The leaders in this part of the world who sucked our resources away from flood control projects in a very substandard fashion and the roods that needs repair months after it was made even if the same was designed for years of use, they may be pelted and slinged with mud. They deserve to, I think. Stones and muds can be the personification of the hate which is perhaps righteous owing to the clear corruption of some.
In these times where Kings and Queens can be stoned , why not our public officials who are remised and corrupt.