Police raid former Rivermaya vocalist’s Makati bar, find party drugs
POLICE on Thursday raided a bar owned by a former vocalist of the band Rivermaya and found assorted party drugs.
Chief Supt. Guillermo Eleazar of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) said the party drugs were found inside two vaults on the second floor of the Time Manila Bar in Makati City, which Rico Blanco, along with Cynthia Primero, Ma. Amparo Marcalinas, Reyas Ladrilio, Burton Joseph Server 3rd, and Danilo Regino, allegedly owns.
Confiscated were 17 small sachets containing suspected shabu, two small sachets containing cocaine, a cup with cocaine, hybrid marijuana, ecstasy, pipe with marijuana residue, and foil, said Eleazar.
Rico Blanco
Eleazar said the raid was based on a search warrant, which the Makati City Trial Court issued.
Eleazar said he would also be talking to other bar owners to make sure their establishments were drug-free.
“We are reviewing our agreement and we will be conducting dialogues on the different management of bars and other entertainment establishments in Metro Manila and it will be spearheaded by different district directors,” Eleazar said.
Eleazar also said that this operation should also send a message to bars in Manila that they were not exempted from the campaign against drugs.
“I hope this will give a stern warning not just to different establishments of bars in Metro Manila but also for the customers availing the services of these establishments to be responsible enough,” he said.
Eleazar said that he would be recommending for the permanent closure of the Time in Manila as it allegedly served as a drug den.
Blanco and his co-owners will face charges for violating Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Acts of 2002.
Thirty-one employees of the Time in Manila Bar were arrested in a previous police operation.
A total of 123 guests, including 57 foreigners, were invited for questioning and were later released. ROY NARRA
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