Woman charged for transporting P11M in drugs

The Office of the Cebu City Prosecutor has indicted a suspected drug mule, whom the police arrested for allegedly receiving more than P11 million worth of illegal drugs in Cebu City.

Prosecutor Simaco Labata found evidence to charge Dorotea Ausan Moyes with violating Section 11 (possession of dangerous drugs) of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act.

“Her (Moyes) counter-affidavit and supplemental counter-affidavit cannot, at this stage, overcome the presumption of intentional possession,” Labata said.

A team from the Fuente Po- lice Station arrested Moyes, 62, an Australian citizen who originally hailed from Antique, after she turned over a bag with more than one kilo of shabu to the hotel she was staying at in Barangay Kamputhaw.

Moyes said she had met a certain Andrew Woods online.

Woods, whom she described as her future husband, then gave her plane tickets from Perth to Cebu to Hong Kong, with her final destination as Osaka, Japan where she was supposed to deliver the package.

At 10:30 a.m. last Jan.27, the Fuente Police Station received a call from the security team of Cebu Parklane Hotel regarding a woman who wanted assistance because of what was inside her bag.

According to police investigation, Moyes asked for help from the hotel’s security guards at 8 a.m.

Moyes, in her statement, said she had no idea that aside from a laptop, there was also shabu inside the bag that had been given to her.

The shabu was wrapped in tape, carbon paper and dust particles apparently intended to hide the drugs from x-ray scanners.

Moyes said that Woods was an Irishman who instructed her to deliver the package to his boss in Japan.

She received it from four “foreign-looking” men inside a convenience store and fast-food chain on Gen. Maxilom Ave.

But Labata said that the prosecution’s evidence has clearly established that Moyes was in possession of illegal drugs. /