TAGUIG COUNCILOR NABBED FOR DRUGS, STEALING

A Taguig City councilor was arrested after authorities found several ecstasy tablets and various items belonging to a casino-hotel in Parañaque City in his possession.

Charges of illegal drugs possession and theft were filed against Councilor Richard Paul Jordan of the second district of Taguig before the Parañaque prosecutor’s office on Friday afternoon.

He is currently detained at the Parañaque police station.

According to Senior Insp. Anthony Alising, Jordan was about to exit Solaire Resort and Casino in Barangay Tambo at 7:40 p.m. on July 3, when security guards noticed he looked “dazed” and was carrying a paper bag and a body bag.

During inspection, they found a small ziplock containing 32 orange and pink tablets, which the crime laboratory confirmed were ecstasy.

Invaluable items

They also recovered from him various items belonging to Solaire worth P22,000, including a silver cork screw, a light bulb, a transparent glass, face towels, ashtray, bathrobes and an iPod dock.

Casino chips amounting to P50,000 were also found on him.

“Only a man high on drugs would steal such small, invalu- able items from his hotel unit,” Alising said.

Alising also pointed out that Jordan should not be inside the casino as all government officials and employees were prohibited from casinos, as reiterated under Memorandum Circular No. 6 signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea in 2016.

In a statement, the Taguig local government said they would not condone Jordan’s conduct.

“The law should be allowed to take its course, and we expect nothing less than the firm implementation of the government’s hard-line stance against illegal drugs,” it said.