By Vir B. Lumicao
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| Sample of ketamine or ecstacy seized at HK Airport |
A Filipina maid who had taken delivery of a parcel containing
ketamine tablets last November was ordered released by a West
Kowloon judge on Mar 14 after prosecutors withdrew a charge of drug
trafficking against her.
Calin Baybayan returned to court on Thursday, Mar 14, for a scheduled
hearing of her case.
But when she was called before Magistrate Ada Yim, the prosecution
said it was withdrawing the charge of “trafficking in a dangerous drug” against
the Filipina for insufficient evidence.
Baybayan was fetched by her employer from the courthouse in
Shamshuipo later in the day after processing her release papers, an officer of
the Consulate said.
He said Baybayan was retained by her employer following the dismissal of her
case.
Baybayan was arrested in late November when she received a
parcel stuffed with a suspected dangerous drug addressed to her by a foreign
man whom she reportedly met on social media.
The parcel, brought by an undercover officer posing as a DHL
delivery man, turned out to be a shipment of ketamine, otherwise known as the
designer drug “ecstacy.”
Local media reports said at the time that the parcel containing
1,920 ecstasy tablets came from a foreign man in Belgium.
The outcome in Baybayan's case could prove auspicious for another Filipina domestic helper who is also facing
drug trafficking charges after allegedly accepting a parcel containing cocaine
sent by her online boyfriend from Ecuador in September last year.
Michelle Mardo, a
41-year-old mother of three, is being held without bail and is scheduled to
appear again in court on Apr 15.
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