Jail vegetable provider busted with marijuana

CEBU, Philippines - A 43-year old man hired to deliver vegetables to the inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center was arrested for allegedly trying to sneak marijuana into the jail yesterday morning.

The man was identified as Guillermo Oroc, who lives in the Carbon Public Market. He has been supplying vegetables to the jail for some time now, according to Marco Toral, consultant on jail management.

Toral told The FREEMAN that Oroc concealed the illegal drugs in the vegetables but did not escape the security measures strictly implemented in the jail facility.

“Very strict atong inspection diha sa CPDRC,” Toral said.  The dried marijuana leaves was estimated at 500 grams.

Oroc is currently detained at CPDRC and will be turned over today to the Guadalupe Police Station for the filing of appropriate charges.

Just December last year, CPDRC personnel arrested two women who tried to smuggle ampoules of nubain into the jail facility by placing them in a bucket of ice cubes.

Another visitor, a man, was also arrested for the same offense; he tried to hide the ampoules behind his genitals.

Toral earlier said nubain, a regulated drug, is said to have more value inside the jail at P1,000 per ampoule. It only sells for P150 in the street.

Sometime in August, packets of suspected shabu were found concealed in a tart brought by an inmate who returned from a hearing of his case.  —/BRP (FREEMAN)