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| Area where Filipino was arrested (Google Maps photo by Kit Tsin) |
A Filipino asylum seeker has pleaded guilty in Kwun Tong Court to possession of methamphetamine hydrochloride (known to Filipinos as shabu) and apparatus to inhale it, and then resisting when four police officers arrested him in a park in Sai Kung.
But Aldrian Maloles, 36 years old, will find out only on Nov. 19 what
his penalty for the three charges will be, after Magistrate Lau Suk-han
adjourned the case to await a report that she ordered done by the Drug Addiction
Treatment Center.
He was returned to jail until then
The three offenses took place on Nov. 17 last year at the sitting
out area outside 15 Sai Kung Hoi Pong Street, in Sai Kung, according to a police
complaint dated May 16 this year.
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In a hearing on Wednesday (Nov. 5), Maloles admitted violating
sections 8(1)(a) and (2) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, for having in his
possession three plastic bags containing a total of 1.01 grams of a
crystalline solid containing 0.99 gram of meth and one plastic bag containing
0.20 gram of crystalline meth.
He also admitted violating sections 36(1) and (2) of the
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance by having in his possession one glass tube with one
end shaped as a bulb containing 0.02 gram of crystalline solid meth and one
glass bottle with two openings containing 0.01 gram of meth.
When three police constables and one police sergeant arrested
him, he resisted and thus violated section 63 of the Police Force Ordinance.
