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| 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.

