It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1132665 |
A policeman was killed while two others were wounded in an ambush Friday morning along the national highway in Tupi town, South Cotabato province.
Col. Jemuel Siason, South Cotabato police director, said the policemen were aboard a private vehicle and proceeding to this city when they were waylaid by unidentified armed men carrying automatic rifles around 6 a.m. at a portion of Purok 15B, Barangay Polonuling.
He said the vehicle’s driver, as Staff Sgt. Renante Espero, died on-the-spot due to multiple gunshot wounds while his companions, Staff Sgts. Rey Jerome Silvederio and Jorex Velasco, were hit on the hand and legs.
Siason said the victims were former members of the drug enforcement unit of the Koronadal City police station and temporarily assigned at the regional police holding and accounting unit due to their pending administrative cases
He said the policemen were facing complaints related to their previous anti-illegal drug operations.
The police official said the pursuit operations are ongoing against the suspects in coordination with various police units.
“We’re considering all angles, including the possible involvement of local terrorist elements,” he said in a radio interview.
PNP officers who were part of the local drug enforcement unit were shot at by unknown men for unknown reasons. These men were also facing complaints due to their operations. One officer is dead and two were hurt.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/06/21/ex-barangay-captain-patay-matapos-manlaban-umano-sa-davao |
A former barangay captain died after he allegedly fought with the authorities in a buy -bust operation in this city Thursday night.
According to police, they staged such an operation against Jorge Taho, 58, at an inn in Brgy. Submerged in Toril district but instead of surrendering after the buy-bust, he allegedly tried to shoot the operatives.
He was taken to the hospital after the operation but was declared dead on arrival.
About P35,000 worth of shabu was allegedly recovered from him. A .45 caliber pistol with ammunition was also recovered from the victim.
A rookie policeman in Aurora province has been disarmed and detained after he reportedly accidentally fired his gun and killed an inmate, the Central Luzon police confirmed on Sunday.
Col. Julius Lizardo, provincial police chief, ordered that Patrolman Christian Torres, 27, be placed under restrictive custody at the police station of San Luis town on orders of Brig. Gen. Valeriano de Leon, regional police director following the shooting Saturday night.
A report from the regional headquarters in Camp Olivas said Torres “went in front of the detention cell and without apparent reason drew his issued short firearm.”
Investigators said the suspect reportedly began playing with the gun that allegedly accidentally shot the inmate identified as Christian Gabral who was then watching television.”
Gabral, 30, was hit on the chest and was pronounced dead in a hospital The type and caliber of the service gun involved in the incident were not mentioned in the report.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1132881 |
A former police officer wanted for two counts of murder and physical injuries was arrested in Abu Dhabi last Feb. 3, a Philippine National Police (PNP) official said Monday.
PNP Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group chief Col. Thomas Frias Jr. identified the arrested suspect as ex-Police Officer 3 Ruben Baliong, who is set to arrive Monday at 2 p.m.
Baliong, who was arrested in a sting operation in Abu Dhabi, has pending warrants of arrest for murder issued by the Caloocan Regional Court and another by a Parañaque court, also for murder and physical injuries.
He was formerly assigned at the Mandaluyong Police Station 3 and has been tagged as involved in illegal drugs and identified as a “contract killer”.
Police verified Baliong's travel records with the Bureau of Immigration last Nov. 5, 2020.
Frias said Baliong flew to Abu Dhabi on Jan. 4, 2019 to work as a security officer at Star Security Services.
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| https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/366644/3-lapu-city-hall-employees-get-citation-tickets-for-failure-to-wear-face-masks |
Three employees of the Lapu-Lapu City Halll received citation tickets from Mayor Junard Chan on Monday morning, March 8, for their failure to comply with health and safety protocols.
Loue Llimit, Fidel Inihao, and Rexor Dulangon agreed to render community service as a penalty instead of paying the P1, 000 fine.
Chan warned them of suspension, worst, termination from service if they are caught again for the same violation.
(If you do this again, you will no longer be issued with citation tickets. I will already order for your suspension next time. If you do this again for the third time, I’m sorry but you will have to already face dismissal from service.)
Chan invited the three men, who are assigned to the city’s clearing team that is under the Solid Waste Management Office (SWMO), to appear at his City Hall office on Monday after he received a photo of the three who were without face masks that was sent through his Facebook page.
The photo was taken by a netizen on Sunday, March 7, when the service vehicle which they boarded came to a stop near a traffic light along M.L. Quezon Highway in Barangay Pusok.
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| https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/regions/778887/cop-caught-on-video-firing-gun-before-placing-it-beside-body-of-slain-drug-suspect/story/ |
An amateur video has caught a policeman in Bukidnon firing a gun three times before putting it beside the body of a slain drug suspect, according to a Saksi report on Monday.
The incident reportedly took place in Valencia City on February 20.
The suspect was killed after he allegedly fought it out with arresting policemen during a buy-bust operation.
According to the police, three spent slugs were found in the crime scene.
The report said Police Regional Office 10 insists that the suspect had resisted arrest and fired at the policemen. It said the policeman on the video fired the weapon out of frustration.
The report also said the policeman on the video died five days after the buy-bust operation after he figured in an accident.
A separate report by GMA Regional TV "One Mindanao" identified the policeman as Police Corporal Benzon Gonzales while the slain drug suspect was identified as Pol Estañol.
Police Captain Francisco Sabud, spokesperson for PRO-10, said they will determine the authenticity of the video that has since gone viral on social media. He also said they will not condone police officers if ever there were irregularities in the buy-bust operation.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1132989 |
Calbayog City Mayor Ronald Aquino and two of his bodyguards were killed in an ambush late Monday afternoon.
The victims were on board a white van and cruising through Laboyao Bridge in the city’s Lonoy village heading north when fired at by gunmen riding two cars at around 5:30 p.m.
Aquino's three bodyguards retaliated, resulting in an exchange of gunfire.
The mayor and two of his security personnel died on the spot site while one bodyguard was brought by some residents to a nearby hospital.
One of the suspects also died, a sketchy police report said.
“Probers of Calbayog police station are now conducting an on-site investigation to determine the motive of the said incident,” the initial report sent to the local media by the Philippine National Police (PNP) regional office here said.
Aquino, who was on his third and last term as the city's chief executive, served as mayor since 2011 after then Mayor Reynaldo Uy was killed in a fiesta celebration in Hinabangan, Samar.
Calbayog City had witnessed a series of shooting incidents that targeted local government officials.
A Mayor who began his term after the former Mayor was assassinated in 2011 has now been assassinated himself. Further investigation of this incident has been most revealing.
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| https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/03/10/2083290/anti-drug-cops-gun-down-calbayog-mayor-police-escorts |
The mayor of Calbayog City, Samar and five other persons, including a municipal police chief, were killed in what authorities described as a clash between the local chief executive’s security escorts and police anti-narcotics officers on Monday.
Mayor Ronaldo Aquino, 59, was on his way to his son’s birthday celebration north of Calbayog in a Toyota Hi-Ace van when his bodyguards reportedly opened fire at several vehicles which they believed were tailing them.
The people in the other vehicles turned out to be lawmen from the Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (IMEG) and Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit (PDEU).
Other policemen who were inside the vehicle of Tabada’s group were reportedly held in custody by investigators.
Eastern Visayas Police Director Brig. Gen. Ronaldo de Jesus said Aquino was not the target of the policemen who were headed to another operation.
“I can only assume that it was mistaken, and there were suspicions on our police that’s why they opened fire and the police retaliated,” De Jesus said in English and Filipino in a phone interview.
PNP spokesman Brig. Gen. Ildebrandi Usana yesterday said Aquino’s bodyguards opened fire at an unmarked vehicle used by lawmen of the IMEG and PDEU that was traveling in the same direction.
“The group of Mayor Aquino was alleged to have initiated the shootout when his close-in security fired at the unmarked vehicle of the IMEG-PDEU group,” Usana said in a statement.
Usana described the clash as an “unfortunate incident,” which is now being looked into a special investigation task group (SITG).
This report only raises more questions such as why would the security guards fire first just because of a suspicion? Testimony from others casts doubt on the PNP's scenario.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/10/21/binaril-binalikan-calbayog-mayor-was-killed-by-cops-from-outside-city-lawmaker |
A political ally of slain Calbayog City Mayor Ronald Aquino denounced Wednesday police claims that law enforcers did not know that they were shooting the mayor's van.
Samar 1st District Rep. Edgar Mary Sarmiento refuted a police report saying the mayor's group was the first to fire at antinarcotics officers that were tailing their vehicle. He said the police were already waiting for Aquino's vehicle at Laboyao Bridge in Barangay Lonoy, Calbayog City before the shooting incident at 5:30 p.m.
Videos of the shooting, he said, showed the police went to the vehicle and shot the mayor when he was already dead.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1133063 |
The newly-revived Municipal Circuit Trial Court (MCTC) in Malapatan town, Sarangani province is gearing up to start hearing cases following its formal launching on Monday.
Officials and representatives from the judiciary, Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), and the municipal government of Malapatan led the court’s reopening, which came over 12 years after it ceased operations.
Acting Presiding Judge Chalmer Gevieso said the court, which is set up at the old municipal council session hall, is already functional and ready to tackle assigned cases from Malapatan and Glan towns.
He said the resumption of the court’s operations will mainly benefit residents of the two municipalities as well as the neighboring areas.
It will no longer be a burden for residents to attend case hearings and process court-related transactions, he said.
“What we are celebrating today is the result of the joint effort of everyone,” he said during the simple launching ceremony.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1133016 |
A former police officer who went rogue and is now listed as one of the Department of the Interior and Local Government’s (DILG) most wanted person was arrested in Plaridel, Bulacan, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Debold Sinas said on Tuesday.Sinas identified the suspect as Bernard Villena, who was arrested by police operatives on Monday noon at a hardware store in Barangay Bintog, Plaridel Bulacan.
Villena, who was previously assigned at the Manila Police District (MPD), joined the police service in 1997 and was dismissed in 2018. In 2015, he was accused of raping his 12-year-old daughter in Valenzuela City.
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