Viral ‘Tiktok’ video of alleged planted of drugs edited
A VIRAL Tik Tok video showing a plainclothes officer allegedly ‘planting’ drug evidence on an arrested suspect has turned up to have been edited in favor of the accused and does not show the real truth behind the scene, the Journal Group was told on Sunday.
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, General Dionardo B. Carlos ordered an investigation into the Tik Tok video with the caption ‘These scalawags planting drugs to innocent people does not deserve mercy. They should be the ones to be put in jail.”
The video made it appear that the officer who turned out to be a member of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region 7 Office was ‘planting’ evidence on Alger Abello, 44, a resident of Sitio Ibabaw in Bgy. Mambaling, Cebu City.
However, officers and other witnesses present at the scene of the anti-drug operation said the PDEA officer who frisked the suspect found shabu in his right pocket, and used his left hand to hold the drugs temporarily while using his right hand to search the suspect’s left pocket.
The edited video made it appear that the officer was already hiding a sachet of shabu in his left hand and ready to ‘plant’ it on the suspect.
A Police Regional Office 7 report said the suspect yielded 10 grams of shabu worth P68,000 when arrested at around 7:40 p.m. last March 23.
PRO7 director, Brigadier Gen. Roque Edgardo Vega said he has ordered the PRO7 Regional Intelligence Division to fully investigate the Tik Tok video so that the real truth will come out.
“However, for the information of the public, a local TV reporter who covered the operation had testified that the Tik Tok video has been edited and that the drugs were not planted,” Vega said.
