Power tools, an air conditioning unit, a flat screen television and DVD players were among the items found inside the detention room of convicted former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez at the New Bilibid Prison on Saturday morning.

The ex-official, detained for double murder for the killing of University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) students Mary Eileen Sarmenta and Alan Gomez in 1993, is among the 3,000 inmates at the maximum security compound who were subjected to a second round of shakedown.

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