Sugar gliders seized inside Bilibid

Authorities on Tuesday recovered four sugar gliders being kept as pets by inmates in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) during its 29th “Oplan Galugad.”

A sugar glider is a small marsupials in the same general family as a kangaroo or koala bear and has been domestically bred as a household pet in several countries, including the United States.

NBP Superintendent Richard Schwarzkopf said they are investigating who is the owner of the marsupials and how they were brought inside the national penitentiary.

Aside from the sugar gliders, authorities also seized stash of contrabands including knives, home-made shot guns or “sumpak,” drug paraphernalia including several syringes,  and boxes of compact discs.

Schwarzkopf said the compact discs were recovered in the cell occupied by members of the Sigue Sigue Sputnik gang at the NBP’s maximum security compound.

Schwarzskopf said they also demolished a “kubol” owned by one Luis Go, reportedly convicted of drug trafficking.

Go has been transferred to the facility housing other high-profile inmates inside the NBP.

Schwarzkopf said they have also installed more security features inside the national penitentiary including X-ray machines. RAM

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