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Pinay in jail before plea in 2 drug charges

26 March 2026

 

Neighborhood in which Filipina was arrested (Google Maps photo)

A Filipina asylum seeker is back in jail after two drug trafficking charges against her were adjourned by the Eastern Court for plea on May 12.

Joanne Miniano,  43 years old, was charged with two counts of trafficking in a dangerous drug, contrary to sections 4(1) (a) and (3) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance Principal.

In a hearing on Tuesdy (March 24), Magistrate David Cheung took note of the anti-triad police complaint that said the two instances took place in Phoenix Apartments on Lee Garden Road, Causeway Bay on Aug. 19, 2025.

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In the first charge, Miniano is accused of selling one cartridge containing 0.48 grams of a liquid containing 0.42 grams of tetrahydrocannabinol (a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol) at the stairase n the 8th floor of Phoenix Apartments.

In the second charge, she is accused of selling 59 cartridges containing a total of 83.0 grams of a liquid containing 1.17 grams of butomidate (a compound structurally derived from etomidate by replacement of the ethoxycarbonyl by other alkoxycarbonyl group), i cartridge containing 1.43 grams of a liquid containing 0.01 grams of butomidate , 61 cartridges containing a total of 81.8 grams of a liquid containing 1.76 grams of butomidate, 8 cartridges containing a total of 11:2 grams of a liquid containing 0.29 grams of butomidate, 3 cartridges containing a total of 3.92 grams of a liquid containing 0.09 grams of butomidate, 6 cartridges containing a total of 8.78 grams of a liquid containing 0.11 grams of butomidate and 0.01 grammes of deschloro-N-ethyl-ketamine (a compound structurally derived from 2-amino-2-phenylcyclohexanone by substitution at the nitrogen atom with an alkyl group), 14 plastic bags containing a total of 487 grams of a solid containing 1.49 grams of tetrahydrocannabinol (a derivative of cannabinol); and 1 cartridge containing 0.41 grams of a liquid containing 0.37 grams of tetrahydrocannabinol.

She allegedly trafficked the dangerous drugs at Room E, Flat J on the eighth floor of Phoenix Apartments.

 

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