Hostage-taker denies drug planting claims


Workplace issues: Paray talking to reporters shortly after releasing all his hostages at the mall in Manila. — AP

Arrested San Juan City hostage-taker Alchie Paray has denied insinuations that policemen planted illegal drugs on him when he was arrested for holding at gunpoint around 30 hostages at a mall in Manila.

In a video yesterday shared by the Eastern Police District, Paray, 40, said authorities were just putting handcuffs on him when they tackled him after he released the hostages.

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