Pinoy jailed after violating probation

 

Eastern Court (File footage)

A restaurant manager who was free on probation, was jailed for four weeks today, Friday,  after he pleaded guilty at Eastern Court to drug possession.

“I will have to resentence your case for violating probation,” Principal Magistrate David Cheung told Ismael Ragual Jr., 39 years old.

Cheung convicted him of violating sections 8(1)(a) and (2) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, sections 8(1)(a) and (2) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, and cut one third from the six-month sentence, for his guilty plea.

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Ragual was arrested on Jan. 16, 2023, outside 37 Paterson Street, Causeway Bay, Wan Chai District and police found in his possession a dangerous drug, namely 3 plastic bags containing a total of 0.08 grams of a crystalline solid containing methamphetamine hydrochloride (or shabu).

He was also found to have one glass tube with one end shaped as a bulb, connected to a plastic straw containing 0.02 gram of a solid containing methamphetamine.

At the time of his arrest, a probationary order was existing, also for drug possession, and set to expire on June 5, 2023.