Retards in the Government 203

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

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/04/16/2091631/doj-indicts-sandra-cam-son-and-5-others-over-2019-killing-masbate-vice-mayor

State prosecutors found probable cause to charge Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office board member Sandra Cam and her son over the killing of Batuan, Masbate Vice Mayor Charlie Yuson III in 2019.

The Department of Justice indicted Cam and her son Marcon Martin for murder of Yuson and frustrated murder for the wounding of Alberto Alforte IV, the Office of the Prosecutor General said Friday.

“When considered in its entirety, the statements and evidence presented by the complainants are sufficient to establish probable cause for the conspiracy among all respondents in the killing of Vice Mayor Charlie and the wounding of Alberto Alforte IV,” part of the resolution read.

Yuson’s wife, Lalaine, pointed to Cam as the brain behind the killing over politics. The slain vice mayor’s son won in the mayoral race against Cam's son, Martin, in the last elections.

Lalaine claimed that the gunmen were previously seen in Cam’s resort in Masbate.

Cam has denied allegations against her and has since filed a libel complaint against Lalaine, as reported by Pang-Masa.

Sandra Cam, who sits on the board of directors of the PCSO, has been charged with murder.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1137099

A village councilor is in hot water after allegedly selling illegal drugs to an undercover cop in Barangay District 6 here on Friday.

Lt. Col. Erwin Ferry, municipal police chief, identified the suspect as Sonny Agustin Balcorta, a Sangguniang Bayan member of Barangay Bulala.

In his report to Nueva Ecija police director, Col. Jaime Santos, Ferry said the suspect was arrested after he yielded two sachets of shabu in a buy-bust at around 12:30 am.

As an elected official, Balcorta was tagged a high-value target in the operation that was hatched after six days of surveillance, Ferry said.

Another village councillor busted for drugs.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1137209

Police nabbed a former teacher wanted for rape in Quezon City on Sunday. 

Brig.Gen. Jonnel Estomo, director of the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group (PNP AKG) chief, identified the arrested suspect as Ramil Gara, who was nabbed in T.S. Cruz Subdivision, Barangay Baesa.

The suspect has an outstanding arrest warrant issued by the Caloocan City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 121.

Gara, a former senior high school teacher of the Notre Dame of Greater Manila in Caloocan City, is accused of raping of one his students identified as "Lulu" on several occasions in 2017.

He allegedly threatened to give the victim a failing mark if she won't give in to his sexual desires.

After the incidents, Gara fled and hid for four years before he was arrested.

Teachers are employees of the DepEd so this gross man deserves to have his face in this series.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1421422/2-ncr-cops-held-in-nueva-ecija-over-indiscriminate-firing

Two policemen from the National Capital Region are now in hot water for the alleged indiscriminate firing of their service firearms in Gabaldon town, Nueva Ecija on April 17.

Corporal Lawrence Natividad of Novaliches, Quezon City, and Patrolman Rephidim Orozco of Tondo, Manila, were arrested based on a complaint by Chair Isagani Sibayan of Barangay Calabasa, reports said.

Sibayan told authorities that the lawmen, without provocation, repeatedly fired their weapons about 10:30 a.m. that day.

Natividad and Orozco were assigned to the Manila Police District Community Precinct and the National Capital Region Police Office, respectively.

The rookie policemen were reportedly visiting relatives in the village.

2 PNP officers are facing criminal and administrative charges for indiscriminately firing their service pistols. This happens quite often. It will happen again.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1421846/councilman-shoots-village-watchman-in-catanduanes

A councilman shot and injured a village watchman in Virac town in Catanduanes province Wednesday.

Major Antonio Perez, Virac police chief, said councilman Francis Bajaro, 58, shot watchman Antonio Tabuzo, 50, in Barangay San Vicente at 1:25 a.m.

Perez said the initial investigation showed that Bajaro was sleeping when a yelling Tabuzo awakened him. Tabuzo was armed with a knife and insisted on entering his house.

Perez said the two had a heated argument until Bajaro fired his caliber .45, hitting Tabuzo’s chest.

Tabuzo is now in a stable condition in a hospital.

Perez said they are still investigating the motive behind the shooting. The suspect is facing charges for frustrated murder.

It sounds like a case of self-defense but the councilman is facing murder charges.

https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1892213/Cebu/Local-News/Cop-kills-self-hours-after-woman-who-had-accused-him-of-rape-was-shot-dead-in-Cebu-City

THE policeman of the Sawang Calero 11 shot himself dead inside the comfort room of the Regional Special Operations Group (RSOG) about four hours after the woman who accused him of rape while in police custody was shot dead on Monday, April 19, 2021 in Barangay Basak, Cebu City.

Police Staff Sgt. Celso Colita was one of the 11 members of the Sawang Calero Police Station who was accused by Ritchie Nepomuceno of raiding her house for firearms but had found none in March 2021, and of extorting her of P170,000. 

Nepomuceno had accused Colita of raping her twice while she was in police custody.

According to a report from Help TV Cebu, Regional Drug Enforcement Unit (RDEU) 7 chief Police Maj. Glenn Hife was interviewing Colita about the "ambush" of Nepomuceno and his involvement in drugs.

Hife said he asked Colita if he had a hand in the killing of Nepomuneno and whether he knew that RDEU had "raw info" that he was involved in the illegal drug business.

Colita didn't reply and instead asked for permission to go the comfort room, Hife said.

Colita excused him and then heard a gunshot coming from the CR. He rushed there to find Colita lying in blood in an apparent suicide. Only hours earlier, just before 6 p.m., Nepomuceno was shot dead in Barangay Basak.

Now, this is a crazy story. A woman who accused 11 cops of robing her and one of raping her was shot dead by unknown assailants. Hours later the man she accused of raping her committed suicide. Given the history of the PNP and the many connections here it is likely the PNP assassinated this woman and then the guy she accused knew he was caught and decided to end it all.  That seems the simplest explanation. However, the PNP is looking at a love triangle and a drug motive for the killing of the woman.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/374197/village-chief-in-borbon-town-accused-of-adultery

A village chief in Borbon town, northern Cebu is in hot waters after he was caught allegedly committing adultery.

A report from the Borbon Police Station showed that Eleuterio Comendador, 49, resident and the barangay captain of Bili in Borbon, was apprehended on Wednesday evening, April 21, 2021.

This stemmed from complaints filed by his wife, Darwina Comendador, 44, who told police that she caught her husband and another woman alone in a room in the village chief’s ancestral house in Barangay Bili. 

The woman, identified as Arra Oddessa Cabahug, 33, and a resident of Barangay Poblacion, Borbon, was also nabbed that evening. 

Darwina reported that Eleuterio threatened to kill her and their daughter after she caught him with Cabahug, prompting her to seek assistance from the police, who later responded and proceeded to her husband’s ancestral house. 

Eleueterio and Cabahug were brought to Borbon Police Station for filing of appropriate charges.

Perhaps if he had not threatened to kill his wife and daughter she would not have called the cops.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1137563

The Supreme Court has upheld the guilty verdict on the former municipal budget officer of La Paz, Leyte who was found guilty of having falsified a plane ticket issued to another person.

In a resolution dated March 3 and released online recently, the SC's Special First Division affirmed the Court of Appeals (CA) ruling upholding a trial court decision sentencing Emerito D. Terado to up to two years in prison and a fine of PHP5,000 and ordering him to pay the cost of the suit.

The SC upheld the guilty verdict for violation of Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act and falsification of private documents.

The SC ruling upheld rulings by the CA and the Abuyog, Leyte Regional Trial Court that found Terado guilty in 2012 of falsifying a Cebu Pacific plane ticket worth PHP4,000 and issued in the name of another person, Editha Labanta, for a round trip between Tacloban City and Manila to make it appear that the said ticket was issued to him (Terado) instead of Labanta for his travel from Tacloban to Manila in April 1998.

As it turned out, Terado did not take the flight and instead traveled by land.

Terado has denied falsifying the plane ticket and said the charge was fabricated by the complainant municipal health officer Dr. Sarah Balis because she was angry at him for disapproving her subsistence allowance.

Commission on Audit (COA) findings on the accused's travel expenses revealed that the plane ticket contained erasures and, upon verification with the local airline representative, had been issued to another person.

The findings also indicated that Terado was not listed as a passenger in Cebu Pacific's flight manifests for the said dates in April 1998.

No word on the motive for falsifying the ticket but the SC has upheld the guilty verdict.