Mexico violence claims hundreds of US lives
When Malcolm X’s grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years.
When Malcolm X’s grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years.
A South African woman, who was arrested last week by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation, was charged in a Manila regional trial court with illegal transport of more than two kilograms of “shabu” (methamphetamine hydrochloride).
The Supreme Court has reduced the sentence meted out to two Chinese men from reclusion perpetua (life) to just a maximum of 12 years in prison, citing weaknesses in the prosecution evidence that led to their conviction of drug trafficking in 2004.
Two Thai women were arrested in separate incidents over the weekend for attempting to smuggle shabu or methamphetamine hydrochloride into the country at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said Tuesday.
Two alleged members of a Chinese drug syndicate who entered the country as missionaries were arrested in Mandaluyong City for selling P600,000-worth of suspected “methamphetamine hydrochloride,” or shabu to an undercover anti-narcotics agent, a Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) official said Monday.
A kitchen-type shabu laboratory inside a three-story house at a sprawling subdivision in Parañaque City, was dismantled early Sunday, leading to the arrest of five Taiwanese nationals and recovery of P150 million worth of equipment and processed shabu (methamphethamine hydrochloride).
Ethnic Chinese organized crime groups have been the primary sources and financiers of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) trafficking in the Philippines, according to the US Department of State.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency on Monday pressed drug charges against two Malaysians caught carrying six kilograms of “shabu” or methamphetamine hydrochloride at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport over the weekend.
The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) police unit has turned over to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Authority (PDEA) an Indonesian national who was caught Sunday carrying 3.73 kilos of methamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu, at Ninoy Aquino International Airport’s Terminal 3.
The Philippines has been named by the US Department of State as one of the 66 major drug money-laundering countries in the world.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Tuesday its diplomats had increased their efforts to save 77 Filipinos on death row overseas after four Filipinos were executed in China last year for drug trafficking.
Immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport have tightened the screening of all African nationals arriving in the country following a recent spate of apprehensions of foreign drug mules at airport.
