Jail guards find ‘shabu’ stuffed inside food for inmate in Iloilo

ILOILO CITY, Philippines — A plastic bag delivered to the Iloilo Provincial Integrated Jail was found to contain much more than the canned goods and chicken meat intended for one of the inmates there on Sunday.

Jail guards found an undetermined amount of what was suspected to be methamphetamine hydrochloride or “shabu” inside two plastic drinking straws stuffed inside the chicken meat.

The substance was intercepted on a routine inspection Sunday morning at the IPIJ in Barangay (village) Nanga in Pototan town in Iloilo, 34 kilometers north of Iloilo City.

Police Officer 1 Raffy Gonzales, investigator of the Pototan police station, said the plastic bag was intended for inmate Garry Cabatian.

Upon questioning, Paterno Caperucho, the motorcycle driver who brought the plastic bag to the jail, said he was directed by Cabatian’s wife to bring the plastic bag to the jail. He told the investigators he did not know that the plastic bag contained prohibited drugs.

Gonzales said an investigation on the incident was ongoing.