'This Court will not sit idly by and allow the Constitution to be added to the mounting body count in the State's war on illegal drugs,' the Supreme Court said in an 11-3 decision.
The Court ruled that the drug suspect from Tabuk City, Kalinga, who has been in jail for 6 years, was arrested on an invalid search. The Court ruled that the suspects' constitutional rights against illegal searches and seizures were violated by the police in 2014.
In 2014, the Kalinga regional police received an anonymous tip made through their hotline that a man would be transporting marijuana from Kalinga to Isabela. The hotline received another text that the man would be on board a jeepney, plate number indicated. The Supreme Court ruled that anonymous tips are not valid probable cause to search a moving vehicle. Search of a moving vehicle is one of the grounds for a"reasonable warrantless searches and seizures.""It is not hard to imagine the horrid scenarios if the Court were to allow intrusive warrantless searches and seizures on the solitary basis of unverified, anonymous tips," the Court added.
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