Woman arrested for making a bomb joke in Cebu City.
Woman arrested for making a bomb joke in Cebu mall. She was arrested by an officer from the Cebu City Public Safety Company.
Senior Police Officer 1 Rommel Opporto confirmed the news to the media.
According to a recent news report of ABS-CBN news, the woman was named as Jasmin Sabroso, 37, she was reportedly arrested by the authorities in Cebu mall for making some bomb joke.
According to Opporto, Sabroso told the security guard of a mall not to open her bag because of a bomb inside it. And she got arrested for violating the Presidential Decree (PD) 1727 that was signed by former president Ferdinand Marcos in 1980, which bars the malicious dissemination of false information about bombs, or making threats concerning bombs, explosives, or similar devices.
Furthermore, those who violate PD 1727 are not entitled to bail pending trial, and if found guilty can either be imprisoned for five years at the most or slapped with a fine not exceeding P40,000, or punished with both.