{"id":9241,"date":"2024-10-15T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=9241"},"modified":"2024-10-14T23:36:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T15:36:16","slug":"south-african-man-nabbed-at-naia-for-carrying-p42-m-shabu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/south-african-man-nabbed-at-naia-for-carrying-p42-m-shabu\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUTH AFRICAN MAN NABBED AT NAIA FOR CARRYING P42-M SHABU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>AUTHORITIES on Saturday night arrested a South African national for allegedly carrying P42.16 million worth of shabu at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 in Pasay City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Suspect Phillip Theunissen, 31, who arrived from Addis Ababa, <\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Ethiopia<\/strong>.<strong>, was caught during an interdiction operation at the NAIA at around 9:20 p.m. on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prior to the arrest, airport authorities noticed suspicious items in Theunissen\u2019s luggage while at the x-ray screening area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Airport personnel inspected the suspect\u2019s luggage and found around 6.2 kilos of shabu in a transparent plastic pouch wrapped with packing tape.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The illegal drugs were stashed beneath the suspect\u2019s clothes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police confiscated Theunissen\u2019s passport, cell phone and travel documents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The South African man and the seized illegal drugs were immediately turned over to PDEA for inquest proceedings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Charges for importing illegal drugs under Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Law were filed against the arrested foreigner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUTHORITIES on Saturday night arrested a South African national for allegedly carrying P42.16 million worth of shabu at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9243,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions\/9243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}