 Five years after the elder Poe's death, Labra, then a teenage, teamed up with Fernando "Da King" Poe Jr. in the 1956 box-office hit "Lo' Waist Gang", a film that spawned a string of other movies and a lifelong friendship with Da King.In 1969, Labra and fellow action star Eddie Fernandez were jailed for murder.Labra spent 13 years in Muntinlupa, only to be exonerated by the Supreme Court.