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MANILA, Philippines—All
comedians play funny roles on stage, but not all of them are funny in
reality.
Jobert Austria, a
42-year-old comedian of ABS-CBN and a mainstay of weekend gag show “Banana
Nite,” is currently facing police
complaints as attempted to jump off from
a hotel on Saturday.
Based on a report of the
Quezon City Police District (QCPD) headquarters on Sunday, Austria is being
held accountable for alarm and scandal as well as illegal drug use.
On Saturday, at
around 12:56 p.m. a yelling Austria had to be pulled in from the edge of the
sixth floor of a Sogo hotel branch located on Quezon Avenue corner Roces Avenue
in Barangay (village) Paligsahan. Responding firemen and barangay (village) public safety officers
were called by the hotel where they had
to pull Austria and get him back into his room.
It was still a
question why Austria was renting a room when he is known as a resident of
Victoria Towers condominium on Panay Avenue in the same barangay. In a separate
report, it was said that Austria was attempting suicide after he received a death threat from his girlfriend’s former boyfriend.
There was also a sachet of suspected “shabu” recovered from
Austria’s rented hotel room, when the SOGO manager and two of Austria’s friends
responded to the turmoil. The head of
the QCPD Anti-Illegal Drugs Unit, Senior Insp.
Roberto Razon, said in a phone interview that the comedian seemed
disparate and was on illegal drugs.
Police
detained Austria as he left the hotel while he was accompanied by friends at around 3 p.m. The
comedian was then turned over to a rehabilitation center after the incident
happened.
