GOOD! The son of slain Ozamiz City mayor Reynaldo Parojinog, Sr. was sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal possession of drugs.
The Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 79 has found Reynaldo Parojinog Jr. guilty of possession of illegal drugs. He is the first member of a political family convicted for drugs.
Parojinog Jr.’s father was the slain Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog, who was killed during the serving of a warrant related to illegal drugs.QCRTC Branch 79 imposed the penalty of life imprisonment with P500,000 fine against Parojinog Jr.
Parojinog Jr. was among those arrested during the simultaneous police operations on July 2017 at the houses of the Parojinogs where his father, mother Susan and several others were killed.
“It must be emphasized that the finding of illicit drugs and paraphernalia in a house or a building owned or occupied by a particular person raises the presumption of knowledge and possession thereof which, standing alone, is sufficient to convict,” read the court’s ruling.
