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| Corner where Filipino was arrested (Google Maps photo) |
A bartender with a standing suspended sentence for drug possession,
is certain to go to jail after he pleaded guilty to a similar charge at Eastern
Court on Friday, involving traces of methamphetamine, otherwise known as ice or shabu.
Principal Magistrate David Cheung made this warning to Mark
Datu, 47 years old, before he adjourned his sentencing to May 8 to await a
report by the Drug Abuse Treatment Center.
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| PINDUTIN ITO PARA SA DETALYE |
“Because of this charge, you face an immediate custodial
sentence…. the drug was for your own consumption,” Magistrate Cheung told Datu,
whom he returned to jail.
Datu had a 10-month jail sentence suspended for one year which kept him from serving a day in jail, when he was searched by a police patrol at Second Street, near the junction of Centre Street in Sai Ying Pun last Dec. 30, and was found in possession of one plastic bag containing 0.03 gram of a crystalline solid containing methamphetamine and one glass tube shaped as a bulb at one end containing 0.06 gram of a solid containing methamphetamine.
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| Basahin ang detalye! |
He was charged with violation of sections 8(K)(a) and (2) of
the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance.
