Are the so-called Alabang Boys – Brodett, Joseph, & Tecson – arrested by PDEA’s field agents on a reported legitimate buy-bust operation undertaken separately in posh Ayala Alabang and in Araneta Center aptly fall under the classification of a big drug syndicate who source their drugs from as far as America via e-commerce or online? This readily runs counter to certain sociological facts that these young individuals did excel in their respective schools academically which just don’t come together with drug use and its social implication.
If PDEA’s rather self-serving claim were to be believed, would the evidence of – 60 ecstasy tablets, 11 sachets of cocaine and drug paraphernalia, marijuana grinder and weighing scales (based on Manila Times reports) – have constituted or approximate a labeling of a big drug syndicate? And how much did the alleged poseur-buyer agent of PDEA have to pay for all these prohibited stuff to tell us how big time the drug operation is and how intricate the case build up was as claimed by PDEA’s chief of special enforcement services or Major Ferdinand Marcelino? Did we hear if the purchase by PDEA breaches the million-peso mark?
In Arnold Clavio’s interview with Major Ferdinand Marcelino in Unang Hirit this 6th of January 2009, it has been become rather conveniently clear that there was not a P50-million bribe as could be claimed any more
than a mere P3 million on a dubious telephone offer by one claiming to be close to the suspects if not affiliated with the DOJ by Marcelino’s own quite misleading account. This telephone conversation did occur allegedly while Marcelino was interrogating the detained suspects in front of their parents and families. But Marcelino failed to supply the facts or details being asked by Arnold Clavio than to merely validate what ought to have been hearsay or a prank call. For one, Marcelino doesn’t have to be too promising to reveal other ‘facts’ in court.
Further, when Arnold asked him whether the suspects were armed, Marcelino admitted that they were not except it was not determined at the time of the chase. The PDEA fired upon the suspects’ vehicle in an alleged 15-minute chase albeit nothing has been shown that there was any threat to the PDEA agents as would imperil their lives. At least, nothing except that again PDEA did claim in newspaper reports that the suspect was about to ram his car to the PDEA agents. And that may have scared the wits out of skilled
PDEA agents?
In a supposedly intricate case build up, there ought to have been no doubt at all whether or not the suspects bear firearms along with the supposedly stuff of high value that should be protected – the prohibited drugs. But it seems that even the discovery of this stuff as claimed to have been found anywhere in the car in what is supposedly an illegal procedure is not one to indicate how legitimate the operation was. Nothing was clear whether or not in the buy-bust operation, there was real indubitable evidence that Mr. X pays Mr. Y a clear amount of money in exchange of a clear amount of goods. Chances are, haste makes waste here.
In the end, there ought to be some kind of fiction work somewhere. At the very least, it is clear that the chief of PDEA did resist having to implement the resolution of the DOJ secretary that dismissed the case for lack of sufficient evidence. Arnold Clavio may have asked the more commonsensical questions except that the PDEA’s chief of special enforcement services did not measure up to confront them with good enough answers expected of a person in authority who is supposed to have full knowledge of the just concluded activity or project.
PDEA’s version might soon fail to pass the litmus test. The PDEA’s claim that the group has international connections contradicts their own admission that this group operates in Metro Manila and only as far as Baguio. From where I stand, we have reason not to be convinced that indeed lawyer Jacqueline Verano may just be right in saying that the buy-bust operation is deemed illegally undertaken and more so without a legitimate warrant for such arrest and subsequent detention without charges having been filed. Moreover, Verano may just be right in claiming that the constitutional rights of the accused have been brazenly violated since they were not read the Miranda rights by the arresting PDEA agents.
The circumstances on that part where PDEA opened fire at the alleged suspects without them having been fired upon by the same should really be looked into in a subsequent reinvestigation to see the light of day on this rather incomprehensible version of PDEA. Santiago is even heard to have said that the suspects should have stopped when fired upon without telling us candidly whether there could have been guarantee that if it did happen, the PDEA would have also automatically ceased firing at them. His statement just does not make any sense at all.
In this so-called sensational drug case, we just do not know what version to believe. For one, that from PDEA cannot prescribe since there is no overwhelming evidence that they are the kind of individuals or suspects who we can normally tag as drug pushers or drug users for that matter. If event organizers with deceiving network of high-end socialites are to be tagged as conduit in international drug operations, then let us simply validate it with more than sufficient amount of evidence – pound for pound – that we may believe what PDEA is really doing. That part that says Marcelino has just booted out his own agents involved in bribery might tell us that there are yet PDEA field agents whom he must determine to have been bribed
Contributing Writer: PRIMER C. PAGUNURAN
UP Diliman, Quezon City
(Email: nielsky_2003@yahoo.com)
My view as a former drug victim (Alabang Boys and Parents)
I watched this morning the Alabang parents of so called “alabang boys” on morning show TV, I can’t help but sympathized with them. I remember when I am a heavy user of drugs that this so called “law enforcers” twisted the law.
They witch hunt heavy drug users (heavy users means lots of money in the pocket) not to change them to recovery but to extort money from them. I was victimized not “once but twice” by this people and I could see this people are not concerned for me to change from my twisted ways but compliment them by giving them a “tax money” so I would have a “licence to used drugs.” I could still vividly recall a so called police enforcers telling me after this bati-bati na tayo (after this caught and bribe me scheme or the HULIDAP we are now friends).
I can believe this “Alabang parents” that they received a suggestion from these law enforcers that they want 3M “pizza” or mullah? Sadly that time, I have give in to the bribe and give myself a painful reality that nobody could help me but myself to change, with Gods guidance and mercy I was led to recovery. No thanks to these law enforcers that they have opened my mind, not to depend for their “evil concocted help” but only stopping that vice could save me from leading me to bribe them again because that’s what their definition of law enforcement all about. This is a sad reality but true.
Mr. Pangunuran,
Your post here makes me laugh. Could you give me just ONE grading period where these Alabang adults passed with flying colors? I KNOW THESE DRUG BOYS PERSONALLY–in fact, I’m even friends with Atty. Jacqueline Verano, daughter of Atty. Verano who holds office in Alabang and Makati.
COULD YOU SHOW ME JUST ONE ACADEMIC RECORD FROM ST BENILDE-DLSU or EVEN ALABANG ZOBEL where it shows that these two young men excelled in their academics? hahahaha! You’re obviously sent by someone, a PR man, to defend his client over here!
Alos, what’s your student number at UP, if you are really a UP student?
This is obviously a PRESS RELEASE. And I’m wondering WHY ENTRIES SUPPOSED TO BE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR are ending up in the entry page which is reserved to FV writers.
Perhaps,any agent or operative of PDEA must at least be a lawyer or a master’s degree holder in related fields of discipline.
We do not need what Santiago calls professional military or police officers much less a marine officer who is better assigned in Mindanao for combat duty.
The most recent Quezon City shootout only indicates that our enforcement authorities are trigger-happy individuals. We do not need killers in the PNP, AFP, PDEA, etc.
Where on earth you will tell all your evidence details in a just mere interview. I am really disturb by writers intelligence nowadays.
To the parents of these so called ‘boys’. So what if they excel in their class, that would not automatically tell you’re a good guy. Note most of our politicians, top officials and generals are top notch people…but look what they are capable of now…not to mention GMA?
The fact they’re either drug users or drug pushers, how they were caught or how much drugs they have on-hand…they have to be dealth with.
Maybe its true their immediate family can’t afford to bribe, how about their backers who are also drug peddlers? They needed to be protected no matter how much it will take. They can even resort to kill all those involve…so u think 50M is too much? Morons…they are earning in billions for godsake.
I support PDEA Marcelino’s group..like what Santiago said either they are succesfully pinned down these people, unmasking them from public is good enough. Either they’re big time or a mere social users. They needed to be avoided.
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I fully agree with Patricio Mangubat. However unlike Mr. Mangubat which finds your post hilarious, Mr. Pangunuran your post makes me sick !!!!!
PDEA and Major Marcelino in particular should be lauded for what they did. It’s about time somebody stood up for principle. We need more men like these.
It is a well known fact that the DOJ along with the prosecutor’s office is one of the most corrupt agency in the government. Believe me, I have practiced law for 2 years now and I am almost tempted to ask surender my law license because I am so sick of all the corruption and the ineffeciency of our Justice system. There may be some good men in our Justice department but there are more rotten apples then there are good ones.
And this one is to Karlpropper. I fully agree with Santiago that we need professional military men in the PNP and PDEA. That’s right. We need “trigger happy” professional military men to pump bullets to the brains of these drug pushers and criminals !!!!! Besides if they arrest them it would be useless since the DOJ will just dismiss the case because they are so corrupt. So it is better off to execute them immediately.
THE ALABANG CONNECTION PART 2
The House inquiry on the resolution of dismissal by the DOJ of the trumpeted drug pushing of scions of well –connected families has assumed from the first day of its investigation as a comedy to a total tragedy and the victims are the Alabang Boys.
If the resolution of dismissal is overturned by DOJ Secretary Raul Gonzales and the case is finally filed in Court, the judge would be in tremendous pressure to convict the accused even if after looking into the evidence he is convinced that it was indeed the “fruit of a poisonous tree” (hence inadmissible) because of the revelations already made Mr. Dave Brodette and his son that the other Brodette Family was indeed involved in drug pushing.
The judge’s acquittal would be perceived by the public as a whitewash and the magistrate in the pockets of the drug syndicate. With the public growing discontent over the corruption in the courts, the PDEA and the DOJ, it is too easy to draw the conclusion that everything was for a “show” and for more “money” extortion.
It’s a damned if you do and damned if you don’t proposition.
This is not passing any judgment of the guilt or non-guilt of the respondents for my opinion here is entirely irrelevant. But to parade the respondents in public and conduct a hearing bordering on the merit of the case is a classic case of “mob-lynching”. I don’t have any sympathy for the respondents, and in fact they can rot in jail for all I care but what I am after is the fairer application of the law which the public sometimes try to look at from purely white and black dimension. It is understandable for the public to conclude that the evidence of guilt was found and therefore the accused should be found guilty. But the manner of how this evidence was gathered is part of the determination of that guilt.
The doctrine of “fruit of poisonous tree” was not devised for the Alabang Boys’ protection. It was devised to protect the innocent and it is only incidental that the doctrine would also protect the guilty.
The name fruit of the poisonous tree is a metaphor, meaning the evidence seized in an illegal arrest, search, or interrogation by law enforcement. The fruit of this poisonous tree is evidence later discovered because of knowledge gained from the first illegal search, arrest, or interrogation. The poisonous tree and the fruit are both excluded from a criminal trial.
This doctrine would prevent the PDEA officers from planting evidence against the innocent and used that evidence to convict the innocent. Thus there is a requirement that a search warrant signed by the judge before a search or seizure is made by the PDEA operatives. (Though the PDEA in the case of the Alabang Boys, claimed that the situation calls for warrantless arrest and seizure, this position has also a constitutional construct or layout).
From this very noble and judicious legal craftsmanship to promote our civil liberties, we unwittingly extend the benefit to the knaves and the guilty. We can understand any public’s outrage for the dismissal of the case against the criminals for that is what our moral construct was made up.
But we can mitigate our outrage with a reminder from John Adamson’s defense of the British soldiers for murdering Americans:
“We find, in the rules laid down by the greatest English Judges, who have been the brightest of mankind;—we are to look upon it as more beneficial, that many guilty persons should escape unpunished, than one innocent person should suffer. The reason is, because it is of more importance to the community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in the world, that all of them cannot be punished; and many times they happen in such a manner, that it is not of much consequence to the public, whether they are punished or not. But when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, it is immaterial to me whether I behave well or ill, for virtue itself is no security. And if such a sentiment as this should take place in the mind of the subject, there would be an end to all security whatsoever”.
i mean john adams’ not adamson. …
Patricio Manggubat:
What a comment, Mr. Manggubat? To that I say, look who’s talking?
With what the parents of the suspects themselves have said in public, I have no reason not to believe that perhaps indeed, their sons somehow do excel in school by the simple theory of “they breed their own
kind” in a vicious cycle. This means, if their parents are educated, their children are too.
Your rather rabid comment that this article of mine is a press release and implying that a PR man must have paid me is a very wild accusation altogether.
You should refrain from doing that since obviously
it is you who posted any number of articles delving on the same subject matter and where they indicate, it was clear, you were ‘floating’ your own school of though if not a PR man of the other side in the controversy. But don’t expect readers to bite the bait – hook, line and sinker.
In other words, leave the readers alone. Let them
sift the grain from the chaff.
You have, wittingly or unwittingly, admitted in bold emphasized letters that you know personally the drug boys to include the daughter-lawyer of Atty. Verano as if trying to say knowing all the facts of the case in so far as their involvement in drug pushing is concerned. That sounds good.
Your last comment really made me laugh. So you are questioning why my article has to appear in the space for FV writers since I am not your regular FV blogger although at least, one amongst you, has invited me instead to join.
That really tells me the elitist orientation that you seem to indicate. This is an open society according to Rom, doesn’t it? This is what the blogsphere is all about, doesn’t it?
What is happening to you, Mr. Patricio Manggubat?
Why do you want to know of my student number? Had you not find an even easier way to gauge whether or not I am from what you think I came? Poor you, that makes me sick as at least another one commenter was trying to undermine other writers’ intelligence here like onli-in-d-philippines.
Enough, Patricio. The case is yet to be known and it is too early in the day to say one school of thought is entirely at error. It can be your school or in case you do PR for others, I don’t do anything like that at all.
At the very least, tell me who that PR man is as I might gladly work for him just to take you to task – for its own sake. Have a nice day, PM! God bless.
This drug trafficking fiasco is now being muddled by allegations of a corrupt justice system in the country. The alleged bribery should be addressed separately from the drug menace. Parents have a great responsibility in saving their children from the drug pushers. Unfortunately, most rich parents seem to be complacent about this matter. In fact, to some, this is an acceptable “social norm.” If nobody buys, nobody sells, the government should address the demand side first, rather than the supply. Otherwise, the 90% literacy rate of our youth will be replaced by 90% durg dependency rate, if this has not been met.
Sec G. should resign, his integrity is questionable. There’s no more decency left in him. Nobody trust his institution anymore.
Non DoJ staff are able to access his institutions’ letter head. He should be responding whether he will sign or not. He should be questioning the letter itself.
Patricio Mangubat, you know those boys personally? Based on the schools you mentioned, it sounds like you know only one of them. I know two of them and I’ve never heard that they were honor students. I’m not saying they’re dumb cause they’re not. Anyway that’s really irrelevant to the case and to the article.
The title of the article is “Alabang Boys – A Big Drug Syndicate?”
Before I talk about that I’d like to say that I’m not their lawyer and I’m not here to tell everyone that they are innocent of any wrong doing. Whether or not they are guilty of A crime… I don’t really want to comment, I’ll try not to comment anyway.
I am going to comment about the attention that this case is getting and what is being said on and by the media.
What is the definition of a drug lord or major/big drug syndicate nowadays? Back then when you read or watch the news about drug busts the headline always mentions the peso value of the drugs captured. Major drug busts used to be shabu lab raids and there would be shabu worth millions. Then the media forgets about it the next day. But why is this getting so much attention? Are these boys making that much of a profit? The resources (time and money) used to capture (bullets are expensive hehehe), detain, resolve the current non-sense, and reporting the story in the media probably cost more than what those boys could have made that night. I’m not saying to let them go because they are not earning a lot. What I’m saying is they are not worth our attention. When they get the big fish, then lets make it a big deal, otherwise don’t parade these guppies in public.
My interpretation on what is going on is that they just want to make an example of these boys and make it look like that they are solving the country’s drug problem. Cause they actually can’t solve the problem cause they can’t go after the real drug lords.
What are drug lords? Here is my definition…
Lets face it no major illegal activity can happen without the blessing of a gov or military official and without them getting a cut. Drug lords don’t personally sell drugs, they have people doing the selling for them. Drug lords can buy officials with the money they made selling drugs. Those alleged bribes, if they are real, are probably from their parents’ pockets. So PDEA and the media are trying to convince us that these boys are the major drug lords and creators of the drug problem because these boys are all they can go after. PDEA is afraid to go after the real drug lord cause the big fish could be an official more powerful than they are.
Also maybe someone wants to get votes. Typical ‘contrabida’ types in Phil movies and tv are the rich and power mestizos. So if they go after someone who fits that profile the masses will think they are the ‘bida’.
So anyway… stop wasting time on these kids and go after the real drug lords.
by the way (ok maybe my info is outdated but) , the real drugs (shabu) in the Alabang area is in TS Cruz. Look for Boyet hahahaha
Disbarment proceedings MUST be filed against these DOJ officials and atty. Verano. Their actions were not only ethical but repugnant to the integrity of the whole justice system.
I commend our PDEA officials who stood by their principle.
Jamba,
the philippine justice system doesnt have an integrity…and the justices, prosecutors, lawyers(private and public) and judges dont have the credibility…and they dont care about ethics.
ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY…SHOW ME THE MONEY AND ILL GIVE YOU JUSTICE..
bwihihihi
i don’t really know what happened, so it’s really hard to judge…
but one thing that confused me was why did atty. Felisberto Verano Jr., the lawyer of alabang boys did the recommendation letter to dismiss the case? that was never been allowed under the law…
to the uncle and cousin of richard brodett:
GOD! how could you betrayed your relatives. if you have a family problem you should not took advantage in this situation, they need your help… think guys before you do your actions, they are not others to you…
hopefully truth shall prevail…
I for one believed that there’s a commission of crime committed by the tag Alabang Boys. Let them suffer the consequences.
UNUSUAL PROCEDURE
What make me wonder is the release order prepared by the Brodett layer Atty. Verano signed by Jovencito Zonio then found by Undersecretary Balcaflor on his table, ordered his men to deliver to Secretary Gonzalez.
Another unusual duties are the functions of the state prosecutors. Are they really doing their duties as Government prosecutors? or protectors of criminals or acting as technical resource person of Secretary Gonzalez?
Lack of Evidence?
What kind of Evidence they are looking?
TELL THAT TO MARINES BUT NOT TO MAJOR MARCELINO AND GEN. SANTIAGO.
i SALUTE YOU SIRS
Rodrigo…ayos na sana ang banat mo…kaso nag SIR ka sa mga taga militar…tayong mga civilian ay hindi tumatawag ng SIR sa mga militar o sa mga politiko o sa mga opisyal ng gobyerno!!!
meron ibang paraan para ipakita natin ang respeto natin sa kapwa…
at sangayon ako sa kakaibang trabaho na pinapamalas nitong grupo ni gen. santiago at major marcelino.
Ginagawa nila ang kanilang sinumpaang tungkulin…parang tayong mga normal na mamayang pilipino, ginagawa din natin ang ating tungkulin sa pamamagitan ng hindi paglabag sa batas at sa pagbayad ng buwis ng bansa…(Para meron manakaw ang mga lintek na politiko natin at hindi sila maghirap at kanilang mga pamilya)
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE kung sino ang nakatanggap ng bribe money.
1. Why State Prosecutor Resado fasttract the dismissal of the case.
2. Why Jovencito Zonio immediateley signed the released order prepared by the Brodett Lawyer Atty. Verano?
3. Why Undersecretary Blancaflor alleged that he don’t know about the release order delivered by his men to Secretary Gonzales.
4. Why Secretary Gonzalez received a call before the release order reaches his office?
5. Why the release order was issued prior to the inquest of one of the alabang boys?
6. Why Secretary Gonzalez shows undesirable attitudes against Major Marcelino during Congress inquiry instead of praising the achievement of PDEA?
Bakit kayo biglang naging BOBO?????
LAPSES OF PDEA
Bakit wala kayong dalang Identification before the conduct of Operation??? Pera din ba ang dahilan.
One typical Filipino arrogance for Mr. Patricio Mangubat. I know this, I know that. Who the hell are you anyway?
I don’t even know what atty you are talking about. Duhhh!!!
Face the truth…DoJ and State Prosecutor Office are protectors of drug syndicates. OBVIOUS, CLEAR AND CONSISTENT.
OO nga ano ba’t nagalit si Gonzalez ke Major dahil lang sa pagsagot pero di sya nagalit ke Verano dahil sa pagsisinungaling at paglabag sa batas tungkol sa draft? hmmm matino pa ba si Secretary?
Ikaw Verano, minsan sinabi mo walang alam si Santiago about sa Law. Pero ikaw nag aasta kang mas mataas sa Law.
Kahit anong kasong hahawakan mo, sa mata nang tao guilty na ang kliyente mo. Alang ka nang kredibilidad.
Hindi ko kilala ang mga Alabang Boys.
Nakilala ko sa mga kuwento ng kaibigan at kasama sa trabaho na si Boy Marcelino ang kaniyang kuya na si Maj. Ferdinand Marcelino, na kaniyang ini-idolo at modelo.
Suportahan po natin ang mga magigiting na sundalo at opisyal ng pamahalaan tulad ni Maj. Marcelino na tunay na Marine, walang takot sumagupa sa laban at giyera ng drugs at corruption sa ating lipunan!
Buenaventura:
I don’t know but I think some of the regular bloggers here should descend from their Ivory Towers because they tend to undermine worldviews inconsistent with theirs to the level of insults or ad hominem.
I am not sure if they are happy to know other bloggers not connected with FV send their blogs likewise to compete with their work.
They always threatened us when we do not even claim we are writers, that we are PRs, that we are journalists. Sure they claim they are implying how topnotch they are in the trade. But let us just read their pieces.
The Alabang boys might still see the light of day getting absolved from the crime they are charged with since there was that earlier indication such as a DOJ resolution dismissing the case against them for lack of probably cause. There was subsequently a supposed to be draft release order which was supposed to have been signed by DOJ secretary had it not been for some black ink throw by PDEA with pure malice since they failed to substantiate their claim of DOJ having been bribed. It was to be the gag that would have prevented DOJ secretary from being able to judge the case based on its legal merits because of possible backlash in the realm of public opinion.
I am one of those who believe that the state prosecutors were unduly maligned by the myth of a P50 million bribery without making it incumbent upon either Santiago or Marcelino to present the briber before the legitimate venue or forum.
Lucky Lau or Alan Lau is a big fish. Ask Senator Revilla err, his brother I mean.
Isn’t it that students from La Salle are expected to maintain a high academic standard, or get thrown across Taft Avenue into …Saint Benillde?
Whats dumb is committing a crime. A nincompoop is one who gets caught. Intelligence officers love creatures of habit.
Exactly how does a mid level drug target “should” look like? Where should they be educated? Describe to me how a suspicious looking person looks like.
Because that dude sweating ate something from Taco Bell and need to evacuate his bowels.
Sporting a scar, or wearing a sultana or suspiciously both?
A collage buddy of mine unable to get a job after graduation, went into peddling drugs, and he tried to sell the stuff to me.
Is he that gaunt guy with tierd eyes who turned out to be a computer geek? Is it the movie star last week, or is it that cop over there?
The case of the Alabang Boys came on daily dosage, piece for piece, or pound for pound.
The story line is all too unclear how exactly the buy-bust happened, who are the PDEA operatives involved, who bought from who, in what quantities, how did it result in a 15 minute chase where PDEA has to fire upon a car with unarmed on board, and all that?
And then again, how did the bribe come about, who are the parties involved, what are the other details, and all that.
Pure allegations have not been substantiated much less supplanted with facts built upon solid evidence. Just nothing.
And the story ends where their mouths stopped chanting mere motherhood statements.
Just trust PDEA. Don’t ask any more questions.
These boys will be chocking someones diiiik in prison, yupp choking the diiiik niiiiggggas.
People would have wanted to know if Maj. Marcelino can substantiate with facts his claim of a P50 million bribery except that he now invokes the veil of executive privilege – that of not being compelled to make any sworn statement of a claim despite the whole bravado earlier shown that formed a favorable image of the man only to collapse at the slightest challenge of well, show your evidence.
Isn’t evidence the thing there is all to such a mandate as PDEA’s?
No, the Alabang boys are minions of Drug Syndicates,
together with the DOJ people.
Like the Mafiosi. The alabang boys have a lot of
money to bribe. The DOJ is like a Mafiosi. They
are bound by “Omerta” , which is the “Code of
Silence” for the Mafia. Any “Rat”, or Informer
will be subject to the “Kiss of Death”.
Raul Gonzalez is the Boss of the Bosses. The DOJ
is like a Mafia family. Look at Resado. He is doing five-six (loan sharking). We are not surprised, if he send goons to breaks the legs of clients who cannot pay.
Looks like you are referring to that ‘Money War’?
everybody, lets not get confused. let the evidence speak for itself. see the merits of the case. the laws were established and must be followed, so that there will be NO abuse of power by the authorities
I’ve never been a fan of law enforcement officers here in our country. i think of them as glorified corrupt maniacs who’s role model is dirty harry with shit for brains. if proper procedures, rules of engagement, or human rights were not followed then their case is supposedly fucked from the start. that’s also part of our law just so you know. It’s like breaking a law in order to implement a law which is just stupidity… Oh, and this case was never about corruption, it’s about drug pushing. If there was indeed a payoff then fine make another case for it. not make it an excuse to cover up your fuck ups, it’s making you look desperate…
but the truth is that these 3 people are MOST DEFENITELY 110% drug users and pushers since I’ve met 1 of them through common social circles. Anyone who says otherwise is a lying sack of shit and should be stoned..
However, They’re not as “Big Time” as they are being labeled of (**cocaine sold in sachets usually fills just 1/8 to 1/4 at the most[1 gram] of the sachet and 60 pcs of ecstacy won’t even fill half of a ziplock [*i've been around. 
]**) compared to the people who supplies them which sells cocaine by the bricks, ecstacy by the ziplock, and marijuana by the sacks.
i just find it funny that the government is focusing so attention and resources on these people when they should really focus on the bigger picture. I mean, these three are just the pushers of the pushers of the pushers of the producers. Is it because of making too much “kotong” that they’re brains are deteriorating? minimum jail time for these 3 is enough just to get some assistance in apprehending the “Bigger Fish”. minimum jail time for this is what? 20-30 years in jail which pales compared to lifetime imprisonment but still at least they’ll serve jail time while PDEA gets a better shot at apprehending the bigger scums of this country (my bet is that they’re avoiding this… conspiracy anyone…).
C’mon PDEA… where’s your ingenuity and creativity … i swear if these are the kinds of people protecting us then no wonder the masses are turning to the church rather than our law enforcement officers. god help our country…
So then, one claim is true, the big time pusher is still around the corner and PDEA find it simply convenient to drive away the big by prying upon the small molies?