Saturday, October 22, 2016

Laglag Droga

Many people have heard of "Laglag Bala" at the airports, but have you heard about "Laglag Droga"? It's fairly common in the judicial and law enforcement circles.  When unscrupulous law enforcement officers bait people with a small amount of planted drugs, then charge them with possession, or even more scary, pushing. Drug pushing in the Philippines used to be punishable by the death penalty. Now drug pushing is punishable by life imprisonment. It is also a non-bailable offense. As a judge in Laguna, we often hear the claim by many an accused person that the drugs found were actually planted on him.

The heinousness of Laglag Droga became even scarier when we learned that the young son of good God-fearing friends was befriended on Facebook, given some money to buy drugs for a good time with a sexy new friend, then subjected to the Laglag Droga by a syndicate. The parents were asked for bribe money, and when they could not or would not cough it up, their son was jailed. The charge was for pushing and thus non-bailable. Know where your children are and the company they keep. Do not let your own kids be victimized by this syndicate.

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