The controversial Quezon City footbridge dubbed “Stairway to Heaven” for its towering height is once again on the news but this time, for a different kind of high.
Yesterday, Quezon City police arrested four construction workers working on the structure after they were caught with suspected illegal drugs.
Police Officer 3 Arnold Jacob of the Quezon City Police Station 10 told Coconuts Manila today that the workers were caught during a buy-bust operation at 6:20pm last night.
They were found with the alleged drugs inside their barracks along EDSA cor. NIA rd.
Recovered from them were three sealed sachets and one open sachet containing suspected shabu (meth) and two pieces of rolled aluminum foil.
According to Jacob, the suspects were identified as Jan Jan Rasonable, 26 years old; Joseph Baldia, 27 years old; Lolito Lacang, 38 years old; and Jonard Jagon, 23 years old.
In an interview with ABS-CBN News, the suspects admitted that they use the drugs while working.
One of them even said that they take the drugs so they don’t fall asleep on the job and get into an accident while atop the high structure.
The footbridge located in Quezon City’s Kamuning Road recently went viral because many thought it was impractically built. Built over the MRT, it goes up at a steep angle, has a short flat walkway, then plunges down to connect pedestrians to the other side of the road.
Backlash got so bad the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority had to postpone the bridge’s opening to undergo a redesign.
