AT around 7 p.m. on March 22, 2023, a male passenger was apprehended by MRT-3 security personnel for uttering a bomb joke while queuing along the baggage inspection area of Shaw Boulevard station.
The passenger was turned over to the Wack Wack Police Station, Substation 3 at about 9 p.m. of the same day.
The suspect had undergone the preliminary investigation before the Mandaluyong City Prosecutor’s Office. At present, he is detained at Eastern Police District, Mandaluyong City Police Station Headquarters Detention Cell and facing charges for violating Presidential Decree 1727 or the “Anti-Bomb Joke Law.”
The MRT-3 appeals to the public to refrain from making bomb jokes and false bomb threat inside all MRT-3 premises. Making bomb jokes is a serious crime and may cause unnecessary inconvenience to the operations.
