Frenchman yields marijuana at airport

DAVAO CITY – Authorities are hunting down here a Frenchman who escaped from his police escorts after he was arrested at the Davao International Airport for possessing dried marijuana leaves last Sept. 16.

The suspect, a certain David Kenny Kerespars, 29, a resident of Paris, was about to board a Bouraq Airlines flight to Manado, Indonesia when he was nabbed.

Chief Inspector Wilkins Villanueva, Region 11 head of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), said charges of violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act have been filed against Kerespars.

The Frenchman escaped from his police escorts as he was being brought to the PDEA-Region 11 office at Camp Leonor.

PO2 Elmer Estacio, of the 8th Regional Aviation Security Office, said he noticed Kerespars concealing something in his underwear when he frisked him at the pre-departure area.

A further check yielded a small black box containing dried marijuana leaves. — Edith Regalado