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Apr
19
Australia’s Most Wanted Man arrested in his Ayala Alabang Village home
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From philstar.com:
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine immigration and police agents have arrested Australia’s most-wanted man in his home in a posh area of southern Manila.
Police Chief Supt. Benito Estipona said Monday that officers arrested Brett Ronald Maston in Muntinlupa City’s Ayala Alabang subdivision. He had apparently hid in the Philippines for years.
The 45-year-old was allegedly involved in a string of bank robberies in his country.
Estipona said Australian authorities had sought Maston’s arrest. The immigration bureau issued a deportation warrant and after receiving information of his whereabouts, arrested him Friday.
Estipona says Maston was earlier reported to be armed, but he did not resist arrest and no guns were immediately found in his possession.
Mar
30
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Feb
20
From Philippines Today:
MUNTINLUPA CITY — Barangay (village) officials, homeowners association, residents and the city government of Muntinlupa have banded together to prevent the repeat of the incident at the posh Ayala Alabang Village were some houses were converted into illegal drugs laboratory.
Alabang Barangay Chairman Alfred Burgos told the Muntinlupa City Council Blue Ribbon and Public Order, Safety and Security Committees that they are doing everything to address the matter.
Burgos said the village is monitoring four areas of concern of the barangay for security purposes and coordinating with law enforcers.The street value of 10 kg of shabu is about P50 million, at P5,000 per gram.
“We are closely coordinating with the security personnel of the Ayala Alabang Village Association and the three non-government organizations namely Morito, Alabang Town Center and the Madrigal office complex and of course the police for the security of the residents in the area,” Burgos said.
Leonardo De Leon, president of AVA, said they are looking at the lease contracts of leased properties’ possible inclusion of visitation rights of the owner anytime they want.
“We will put it into the contract, and to give the security personnel of AVA the authority to check the premises of leased property if the need arises,” De Leon said.
Burgos said that under the lease agreement, one family is allowed to occupy one property but the situation changes so they have to address the matter and residents should also be part of the adjustments they are going to make.
Burgos also added that they are now establishing strong relations with the foreign embassies so they can prevent possible entry of persons with suspicious background.
“This is for prevention purposes and close coordination with embassies so we can get information to the people and of course the residents should also know their neighbors,” Burgos said.
Councilor Raul Corro said he will sponsor a proposed ordinance that will regulate the lease of commercial, industrial and residential properties within the city of Muntinlupa.
Agents of the PDEA raided a medium-scale drug laboratory on a sprawling property in the plush subdivision, confiscated drug equipment and paraphernalia, and arrested the suspects before dawn on January 6, 2012.
Based on their inspection of the facilities, PDEA agents said the entire production line could manufacture a minimum of 10 kilograms of shabu per cycle, although the scale of the production and the frequency of each cycle was still being investigated.
Jan
17
2 more drug labs found inside Ayala Alabang
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From philstar.com:
By: Reinir Padua
MANILA, Philippines – A week after raiding a shabu laboratory in Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa City, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) raided two more drug laboratories in the same barangay Friday night.
Unlike in the Jan. 6 raid, wherein five Chinese were arrested in the one-hectare property on Acacia street, the two properties raided Friday were unmanned, PDEA Director General Jose Gutierrez Jr. said.
“They were no longer there,” Gutierrez said in an interview at midnight yesterday, minutes after they swooped down on the two facilities.
Last Friday’s operation was prompted by tips from residents following the raid on a one-hectare property there on Jan. 6. “There were those who called us up and even sent text messages. They were suspicious of Chinese nationals seen in those two other houses,” Gutierrez said.
The agency secured a search warrant and raided the houses at 119 Kanlaon street and at 536 Country Club Drive.
At the Kanlaon street house, agents recovered laboratory equipment, assorted chemicals and approximately three kilos of finished shabu. They seized from the house on Country Club Drive laboratory equipment, chemicals, and chemical residue. According to Gutierrez, the two facilities are medium-scale laboratories that could each produce 10 kilos of shabu per cycle, which takes two to three days.
PDEA-National Capital Region director Pedrito Magsino said in a television interview that they have the names and photos of the ones who have been renting the two houses since September last year. He said the owner of one the houses is Filipino, while the other house is owned by a Chinese.
Gutierrez said he has a “strong feeling” that the three shabu laboratories are connected, especially if the Chinese seen in the two houses were also from Hong Kong, just like the ones arrested in the Jan. 6 raid.
He said the stench from the shabu manufacturing process, though it was strong in both houses, could not be detected from the outside. “Once you open the doors, it’s only then you are greeted by the stench,” he said.
Cold medicine
Gutierrez said they also found empty packs of Novahis-D, a brand of cold medicine, in the garbage bags taken out of the two compounds. “Those collecting the garbage must have found it unusual,” he said.
He said the medicine contains ephedrine, an important chemical used in the production of shabu. The PDEA chief said while local drug lab operators just smuggle ephedrine, those running the two shabu laboratories may have extracted the ephedrine from the tablets, which are manufactured in Pakistan.
“This is very common in Thailand and Korea… But this was the first time I saw it here,” he said.
Barangay officials in hot water
Muntinlupa Mayor Aldrin San Pedro directed barangay officials of Ayala Alabang to explain why they should not be sanctioned for the three drug laboratories operating “right under their noses.”
San Pedro’s spokesman, Omar Acosta, said these officials, led by barangay chairman Alfred Burgos, may be sanctioned for being remiss in their duties. He said San Pedro, following the Jan. 6 raid, directed barangay officials to closely coordinate with the homeowners’ association to come up with measures to prevent organized crime syndicates from operating in the area.
“The mayor finds the security protocol ineffective,” Acosta said.
Burgos said the Ayala Alabang Village Association is now reviewing the processes of tenants and agents involved in leasing properties in the village. – With Perseus Echeminada
Jan
6
Shabu lab discovered inside Ayala Alabang
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Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Jose Gutierrez Jr. identified the suspects as Ken Ming Chao, 49, alias Lam Tse Kin; his brother Lam Ka Chun, 51; Kowk Chi Keung, 42; and twins Choi Yiu Kit and Choi Yiu Chun, both 33.
Gutierrez said the five were arrested inside the drug lab in a gated and high-walled compound on Acacia Avenue, Ayala Alabang.
PDEA Public Information Chief Evangeline Almenario said some of the suspects tried to escape but were caught by the agents.
Inside the lab were grams of shabu, controlled precursors, essential chemicals, and lab equipment.
Gutierrez said the lab that can produce 10 kilograms of shabu per cycle. Almenario explained that one production cycle usually takes two to three days.
Almenario said intelligence reports indicated that the drug syndicate to which the suspects belong had been moving around until Ken Ming Chao rented the compound in July.
She said that the compound includes a main house, two storehouses and a swimming pool.
Almenario said the syndicate pays around P260,000 per month as rent for the property.
Almenario withheld the identity of the property owner while agents find out if he knew what was going on there.
Following the raid in Ayala-Alabang, the Muntinlupa city government is studying an ordinance that will provide the police easy access to exclusive subdivisions in the city after a search warrant is issued by a court.
Mayor Aldrin San Pedro said he has instructed the Office of the City Attorney to come up with a proposed ordinance to immediately implement any search warrant.
He said the implementation of a search warrant is being delayed because security guards in exclusive villages and subdivisions prevent the police or any security force of the city from getting in.
He said any security officer that will prevent law enforcement officers from entering the subdivision to carry out the search warrant will result in the cancellation of the permit of the security agency concerned.
Police Senior Supt. Ramiro Bausa, Muntinlupa police chief, echoed the mayor’s sentiment regarding the restricted access of the police to exclusive villages
