Shabu suspects can’t stay out of cell

CEBU — The 11 suspects arrested in a series of raids on shabu laboratories in Mandaue City last month have been barred from staying outside their prison cell.

Mandaue City jail warden Jose Moring has denied their request that they, like the other detainees, be allowed to step out of their cell from time to time.

He said the 11 suspects are high-risk inmates so that their security should be tightened and that the food and other materials given to them should be scrutinized.

Moring said they are given time to talk to their visitors, especially their legal counsels, but that the names of these people have to be entered in a separate logbook.

Detained at the Mandaue City jail are Hung Chin Chang alias Simon Lao and Andy Ang, a British national of Chinese descent; Chinese nationals Bao Xia Fu, Tau Hue and Liu Fu; Taiwanese nationals Hu Tiao Yi and Lin Li Ku, Malaysians Siew Kin Weng and Liew Kam Song, and Filipinos Joseph Yu, Allan Yap Garcia and Joseph Lopez.

The Mandaue City shabu labs, considered among the largest in Asia, yielded 675 kilos of shabu worth P1.5 billion and chemicals enough to produce 7.5 tons of the illegal drug worth P15 billion.

The other day, authorities, upon the court’s directive, destroyed the seized shabu and chemicals at a cement plant in Naga town and at a chemical treatment facility in Barangay Inayawan, Cebu City. — Freeman News Service