Speeding taxi driver yields ‘shabu’ in Pasay

Police on Saturday chased a speeding taxi and arrested the driver not for driving like mad but for the thing that could have made him drive like crazy: drugs.

Superintendent Samuel Turla, officer-in-charge of the Pasay police, said the driver, Roman Go, 32, a resident of Dagat-Dagatan in Caloocan City, was in jail facing drug charges.

Police and village watchmen caught up with Go on Tramo Street in Pasay City around 4 p.m. on Saturday and found in his taxi a plastic sachet containing methamphetamine hydrochloride, or “shabu.”

Turla said the shabu had a street value of P5,000.

Go drove a Clarisse taxi (UVR 495), but could not show his license and the cab’s registration papers, raising suspicion among the authorities that the vehicle was stolen.

“But we will still verify this with the Highway Patrol Group and the Land Transportation Office,” Turla said.

As for the shabu, Turla said the amount was little and could only be for the “driver’s personal consumption.”—Niña Calleja