Retards in the Government 190

It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.

 

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1383940/clandestine-shabu-lab-in-subic-bay-freeport-zone-busted-4-cops-nabbed

Four police officers who are allegedly protecting a clandestine shabu (crystal meth)  laboratory inside the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Zambales, and another individual, were arrested during a drug buy-bust operation on Friday.

The laboratory could produce at least 3 to 4 kilograms of shabu daily, investigators said.

Those arrested were identified as Lt. Reynato Basa Jr., Cpl. Gino Dela Cruz, Cpl. Edesyr Victor Alipio, Cpl. Godfrey Duclayan Parentela. Also arrested was a certain Jericho Dabu.

Adrian Alvariño, regional director of PDEA – National Capital Region, said the syndicate behind the operation of the clandestine laboratory is composed of a Canadian national, a Filipino who delivers the shabu, and the four police officers from the Subic Station Drug Enforcement Unit “who is (sic) their protector and helps them dispose of the illegal drugs.”

He said a follow-up operation is ongoing for the arrest of the Canadian national.

Four cops from the Subic PNP Drug Enforcement Unit have been arrested or protecting a drug lab run by a Canadian national. The Olongapo police Chief has also been fired over this incident.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/359252/jail-officer-shot-dead-in-danao-city

At least eight still unidentified individuals are being considered as suspects behind the killing of a jail officer in Danao City on Thursday evening, January 14, 2021. 

The Danao City Police Station said Jail Officer 2 Reymond Roble Vasquez, 34, did not make it alive at the hospital after he was gunned down past 10:30 p.m. in Sitio Sta. Cruz, Barangay Dunggo-an in Danao City, northern Cebu.  

Police said the crime occurred right in front of Bureau of Jail Management and Penology – Danao City office (BJMP-Danao), and that they received the shooting alarm from a concerned citizen around 10:35 p.m. 

“According to the BJMP-Danao personnel, the (victim) was on duty and his post was outside of the BJMP-Danao premises,” they said.  

Based on the initial closed circuit television (CCTV) footages the investigators obtained from BJMP-Danao’s office, four motorcycles were seen surrounding Vasquez’s multicab shortly after the victim went inside his vehicle.  

Investigators added that the eight suspects, all of whom were seen wearing face masks, peppered Vasquez with bullets. 

As a result, the victim sustained several gunshot wounds in his head and his vehicle was riddled with bullet holes. 

A jail guard was assassinated by 8 unknown men for unknown reasons.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1127507

Narcotics agents have arrested a former staff of the Iligan City Anti Drug Abuse Council (ICADAC) in a buy-bust operation Thursday evening in Barangay Luinab here.

Agent Neil Pabilona, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) assistant provincial officer for Lanao del Norte, identified the arrested person as Wilrap Losorata, 28, who yielded five sachets of shabu with an estimated market value of PHP54,400.

Losorata was under surveillance for several months based on the information provided by previously arrested personalities, Pabilona said.

Another (former) government official arrested on drug offenses.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1384663/2-police-rookies-face-dismissal-for-drug-use

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Debold Sinas has ordered the pre-charge investigation and initiation of summary dismissal proceedings against two police non-commissioned officers who were found positive for drug use.

 Sinas said Pat. Reyland Lacap Intal from the Olongapo City Mobile Force Company and Pat. Benhur Ismael from the 2nd Sulu Provincial Mobile Force Company have been disarmed and placed under restrictive custody by their respective units while investigation is ongoing.

Two more cops fail their drug tests.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/359562/lawyer-municipal-councilor-7-others-nabbed-for-illegal-cockfighting-in-tuburan

Nine individuals including a lawyer and a municipal councilor were arrested around noon of January 15 after they were caught engaging in illegal cockfighting in Purok 1, Sitio Matnog, Barangay Putat, Tuburan town, northwestern Cebu.  

The violators are currently detained at the Tuburan Municipal Police Station and will be facing charges for violating Presidential Decree 449 or the Cockfighting Law of 1974 as amended by Presidential Decree 1602, Section 9 (e) of Republic Act 11332 or the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Events of Public Health Concern Act, and the Article 151 of the Revised Penal Code.  

According to a spot report, the lawyer will also be facing a separate criminal case for violating Section 31 of RA 10591 or the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunitions Regulation Act after he was found in possession of a registered firearm without legal authority.   

CDN Digital is withholding the identity of the lawyer and his councilor-brother as we are still reaching out to get their side.

Confiscated from the area were 7 dead fighting cocks, 19 live fighting cocks, cash worth P48, 410, a variety of medicines for fighting cocks, syringes, nylon cords, gaffs, one (1) 9mmx9 PARA, and some gambling paraphernalia. 

Another LGU official caught engaging in illegal cockfighting.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/359858/retired-army-colonel-tagged-in-killing-of-cebu-lawyer-wounding-of-another-lawyer

Another retired Philippine Army official was arrested for his alleged involvement in the killing of a lawyer in Cebu City. 

The National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) accused Retired Colonel Edwin Layese of taking part in the fatal shooting of Lawyer Joey Luis Wee. 

Lawyer Renan Augustus Oliva, director of NBI-7, told reporters in a press conference on Monday, January 18, that they found out that Layese also happened to be part of a separate shooting incident involving another lawyer – Joseph James Gupana. 

“While we were conducting the investigation, we found similarities in the execution and profiles involved in the two attacks,” said Oliva in a mix of Cebuano and English.

Layese was arrested within the vicinity of Fuente Osmeña last January 13, 2021, NBI-7 said. He will be facing charges of murder and illegal possession of firearms. 

Authorities earlier arrested another retired official from the Philippine Army, identified as Edgar Benigno Fausto Peralta, for the killing of Wee. 

Wee, 51, was shot in the head in front of his law office in Barangay Kasambagan, Cebu City last November 23, 2020. 

Gupana, 74, on the other hand, survived an ambush-slay attempt in Barangay Pajac, Lapu-Lapu City last October 10, 2020.

Oliva said they believed Layese and Peralta were moonlighting as guns-for-hire.

Cebu City PNP thinks retired Army officials are working as guns-for-hire. Are there more? Who is hiring them?  Why would they take the job?

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1127837

The Sandiganbayan has convicted two former Lanao del Norte police officers who enforced the demolition of houses without a valid court order.

In a decision dated Jan. 15, the anti-graft court’s First Division found Rey Armodia Camanian and Lauro Rocaberte Diputado guilty beyond reasonable doubt of three counts of grave coercion and sentenced them to up to three years imprisonment for each count.

The two former members of the Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte PNP Civil Service Unit, along with then Mayor Rommel Arnado, was charged in a complaint filed by the Sambuat family after the policemen barged into their property and destroyed their homes even after they showed them copies of their title to the property.

Two cops convicted of demolishing a family's house without a court order.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1385619/village-chief-shot-dead-in-leyte-town

A village chief was gunned down by a still unidentified assailant along the national highway in Barangay Bobonon, Alangalang town, Leyte on Tuesday morning.

Another village chief assassinated.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1127795

Two police officers of the Eastern Police District (EPD) are ordered dismissed from service after they tested positive for illegal drug use.

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Debold Sinas identified the erring policemen as Cpl. Regie Alilano, assigned at the Pasig City Police Station Sub-Station 6 and Pat. Arnel Agustin of the District Human Resource and Doctrine Development Office. The two are undergoing summary dismissal proceedings.

Sinas said a random drug test administered to 76 EPD personnel last Jan. 13, 2021 screened and confirmed traces of methamphetamine in the urine specimen of Alilano and Agustin.

Both police officers have been disarmed and placed under restrictive custody.

"We will not stop until we completely cleanse the police force of drug-using members," Sinas said.

Two more cops test positive for drugs.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1127922

Police authorities in Kidapawan City have launched a manhunt for three men who ambushed and injured a village chairperson on Tuesday evening.

Col. Ramel Hojilla, Kidapawan police director, said several leads are being pursued against the armed men who ambushed Albert Espina, chairperson of Barangay Sto. Niño, Kidapawan City.

Hojilla said Espina, 38, was heading home in his Toyota Hi-Lux pick-up with his wife and child at 7 p.m. when they were flagged down by still unidentified gunmen along a dimly-lit road in Purok 7.

“One of the suspects opened fire on him using a .45 caliber pistol,” he said over a radio station here Wednesday.

Hojilla said Espina sustained bullet wounds on his elbow and shoulder and is recuperating at a private hospital. 

Another attempted assassination against a village executive.

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/01/20/2071713/89-barangay-captains-suspended-over-sap-cash-aid-anomalies

President Duterte announced Monday night the preventive suspension of 89 barangay captains for six months over alleged irregularities in the distribution of social amelioration program (SAP) cash aid intended to cushion the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In his weekly televised address, the President read the list of suspended barangay captains after conducting his weekly meeting with core members of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF).

“Itong mga barangay captains, I warned you. ‘Pag umpisa pa lang sinabi ko na do not f**k with this. Itong pera sa pantawid. ‘Yong panahod ng COVID na namigay ang gobyerno ng pera para sa mga mahihirap. Sinabi ko na, lalo na sa barangay level, na ‘wag na ‘wag ninyo gawin (I warned you from the beginning, do not mess with this money for the poor),” Duterte said during his nationwide address.

The President stressed the barangay captains would be under preventive suspenion for six months.

89 more LGU officials suspend over anomalous SAP transactions.

https://politics.com.ph/jail-officer-nabbed-for-raping-lesbian-boarder/

A Bureau of Jail Management officer assigned in Taguig City has been arrested for the alleged rape of a 26-year-old lesbian, who was his tenant.

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) identified the officer as Ramon Carolino. 

According to the NBI’s report to the Pasay City Prosecutor’s Office, Carolino raped the woman after a drinking session at his house on January 16.

Carolino allegedly forced the woman to have sex with him at gunpoint after their drinking buddies left the house. The victim was a boarder at the officer’s residence. 

The NBI said the victim reportedly suffered mental trauma after being raped. She has been referred to the bureau’s behavioral department for therapy. 

“The victim could not stop crying when she arrived at the NBI office and fainted several times, during the process of the investigation,’’ the report read.

Carolino claimed he and the victim had consensual sex, but results of the medical exam on the woman showed lacerations or injuries in her genitals.

A BJMP employee is accused of raping his tenant!

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1386247/cop-girlfriend-nabbed-in-camarines-norte-drug-sting

A police officer and his girlfriend were arrested in a search operation in Daet town in Camarines Norte province on Wednesday morning.

Lieutenant Colonel Chito Oyardo, Daet police chief, said Police Senior Master Sergeant Jacky Palomar, 40, assigned at the 2nd Police Mobile Force Company of the province, and Mylene Delos Reyes, 29, were arrested in Barangay Magang at 11:45 a.m.

Oyardo said they were identified as members of the “Rey Gutierrez Drug Group” operating in the province.

Confiscated were 50 grams of suspected shabu (crystal meth) worth P350,000, a caliber 9mm with 15 live bullets, and a stolen Toyota Hilux vehicle.

“He was under surveillance after previously arrested drug personalities identified his involvement in the group,” Oyardo added.

Palomar was allegedly protecting the operation of the group, causing other anti-illegal drug operations in the province to be compromised, Oyardo said.

He has been in service with the Philippine National Police for 18 years.

Another cop busted for being involved in drugs. 

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1128052

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Gen. Debold Sinas, on Thursday ordered a deeper investigation on the Binangonan Municipal Police Station following the arrest of two “civilian assets” for alleged extortion activities.

Sinas directed Calabarzon PNP director, Brig. Gen. Felipe Natividad, to place Binangonan police chief, Lt. Col. Ferdinand Ancheta, under investigation for command responsibility over alleged extortion activities of his subordinates that was confirmed in the entrapment operation on Tuesday by the PNP Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (IMEG) right in front of the town hall.

“I will not let this incident pass without implementing appropriate criminal and administrative action against those involved," Sinas said.

The IMEG operation resulted in the arrest of Albert Domingo alias Joel, and Pablo Dolfo alias Botchok, both civilian assets of Binangonan Police Station.

Domingo and Dolfo were identified by IMEG as the persons who extorted money from a certain Stephen Kellu in exchange for the release of an impounded motor vehicle.

During the entrapment operation, IMEG operatives also discovered that a "person under police custody", Cpl. Archieval Perez, who is facing non-bailable charges for infidelity in the custody of prisoners, was outside the detention facility and serving as lookout during the extortion pay-off using two mobile phones for communication, IMEG director Col. Thomas Frias Jr. said.

Kellu also identified six members of Binangonan Police Station as involved in the alleged extortion.

They are Senior Master Sgt. Randy Andanar; Staff Sgt. Joel Acosta; Staff Sgt. Joe Sevillena; Cpl. Allan Alvarez; Cpl. Marson Tayaban; and Cpl. Ew Armenis.

Six cops allegedly involved in extortion activities.