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| Place in Wanchai where Filipino was intercepted. (Google Maps photo) |
A Filipino driver has been jailed six weeks for possession of apparatus used for inhaling dangerous drugs.
Steven Sarmiento, 49 years old, had earlier been issued a
warrant of arrest after failing to show up for his sentencing last April 26.
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| PINDUTIN DITO |
Magistrate Minnie Wat apparently based the sentence on a report from the probation officer that has ordered in the last hearing, to see how best to treat the Filipino.
Sarmiento was charged with possession of apparatus fit and
intended for the inhalation of dangerous drug, a violation of the Dangerous
Drug Ordinance.
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| TAWAG NA! |
The case stemmed from the police finding in his possession a
glass bottle into which two plastic tubes and a plastic straw were inserted, a
glass tube with one end shaped like a bulb, and a plastic straw fit and
intended for the inhalation of a dangerous drug.
Also seized from him was 0.0l gram of a solid substance
containing methamphetamine (also known as shabu or ice), which was in the
plastic straw.'
The items were found in his possession during a routine police check on pedestrians on Matheson Street in Wanchai last Dec. 20, 2023.
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