THE Regional Election Monitoring Center (Remac) of the Police Regional Office (PRO)-Davao recorded a total of 67 violators of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) liquor ban as of noon Monday, May 13.
The liquor ban took effect 12 a.m. Sunday, May 12, in connection with the midterm polls.
Based on Remac’s data, a total of 17 police operations were conducted in the entire region.
The Omnibus Election Code “prohibits any person who sells, furnishes, offers, buys, serves or takes intoxicating liquor on the days fixed by law for the registration of voters in the polling place, or on the day before the election or on election day.”
Violators of the ban would be penalized with imprisonment of not less than one year but not more than six years and shall not be subject to probation.
Some of those apprehended in Davao City were three individuals having drinking spree at Davao Farms Southbay, Barangay Lapu Lapu, Agdao, Davao City. Confiscated from them were bottles of Red Horse Beer 1000ml and one drinking glass.
They were identified as Daniel Sialang Doroon, 37; Archie Arriola Arquiza, 40; and John Paul Labanon, 25.
Arquiza and Labanon are both residents of Davao Farms Southbay in Barangay Lapu Lapu, Agdao, Davao City.
Also, a group composed of three male persons was apprehended while drinking liquor along the street of Doña Mercedes Village, Panacan, Davao City at 12:15 a.m. Monday, May 13, particularly near the basketball court.