{"id":142368,"date":"2017-12-27T21:19:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T02:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=142368"},"modified":"2017-12-27T21:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T02:19:29","slug":"pdea-chief-surprised-over-actors-acquittal-from-drug-raps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/27\/pdea-chief-surprised-over-actors-acquittal-from-drug-raps\/","title":{"rendered":"PDEA chief surprised over actor\u2019s acquittal from drug raps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_81745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81745\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/74293_126028684120311_2765562_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81745\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/74293_126028684120311_2765562_n.jpg\" alt=\"Former matinee idol Mark Anthony Fernandez. (Photo: Mark Anthony Fernandez\/Facebook)\" width=\"435\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/74293_126028684120311_2765562_n.jpg 435w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/74293_126028684120311_2765562_n-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Former matinee idol Mark Anthony Fernandez. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/markanthonyofficial\/photos\/a.111068262283020.15666.102756586447521\/126028684120311\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/markanthonyofficial\">Mark Anthony Fernandez\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Former regional director of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Central Luzon and now director general of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Aaron Aquino, on Wednesday expressed surprise over the acquittal of TV and movie actor Mark Anthony Fernandez, who was charged with marijuana possession in Pampanga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am personally surprised by the acquittal of Mr. Mark Anthony Fernandez, who during my time as regional director of PNP-Region 3, was apprehended for possession of 1 kilo of marijuana,\u201d Aquino said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Angeles, Pampanga collared Fernandez in October last year for allegedly transporting the marijuana, with an estimated street value of PHP15,000.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Ireneo Pangilinan Jr. of the Angeles City Regional Trial Court Branch 58 said he had to release Fernandez due to \u201cprocedural breaches\u201d committed by Angeles policemen in handling the evidence against the actor.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino, however, said that he would still respect the rule of law and that he would support the PNP in whatever legal action it would undertake against Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p>The actor is the son of actress and politician Alma Moreno and the late actor Rudy Fernandez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Former regional director of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Central Luzon and now director general of the Philippine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,46,95],"tags":[27394,40743,11541,40741,40742,2238,12379,7983],"class_list":["post-142368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-news","category-entertainment-ph","category-news-ph","tag-aaron-aquino","tag-angeles-city-regional-trial-court-branch-58","tag-central-luzon","tag-hilippine-drug-enforcement-agency","tag-ireneo-pangilinan-jr","tag-marijuana","tag-mark-anthony-fernandez","tag-philippine-national-police","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}