A corrections officer was arrested in an attempt to smuggle eight packs of cigarettes into the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City, the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) said on Friday, July 21. BuCor identified the arrested jail guard as CO1 Jerome San Gabriel who was assigned at the NBP’s hospital supply. It said that in the mandatory checking of belongings, the guards “found the contraband hidden in a rice plastic bag.” “San Gabriel was turned over to the commander of the guards at the maximum-security unit for further investigation and disposition,” it said. BuCor Director General Gregorio Pio P. Catapang Jr. urged corrections officers to stop committing wrongdoings at the bureau. “I am giving everybody here a chance to do the right thing and what is mandated of us to do,” Catapang said. “It is either they change their bad habits and join me in my call to reform the bureau or be caught and face the consequences of their actions,” he warned. Earlier, suspected methamphetamine hydrochloride, locally known as shabu, and drugs paraphernalia had been surrendered to BuCor officials by a person deprived of liberty (PDL) at NBP. The PDL was identified by BuCor as Robert Gamboa, who is confined at the NBP’s maximum-security compound. The report stated that Gamboa turned over a blue pouch that contained six transparent heat-sealed sachets that contained suspected shabu. Also turned over by the PDL were two pineapple cans that contained an improvised water pipe, three improvised glass tooter, three pieces of improvised transparent glass tube, and a plastic sachet containing suspected shabu. “After proper documentation, the surrendered suspected illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia were turned over to Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA),” BuCor said.  Probe on the incident has started, it added.