Retards in the Government 250

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

  

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1566553/ex-afp-officer-former-baywalk-bodies-member-arrested-in-qc-buy-bust-ops

Another former member of the uniformed service — this time from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) — was arrested in an anti-drug operation in Quezon City, the city police said on Thursday.

Reports from the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) said that aside from Fidel Samson Jr., who is a Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Class of 1987 member and a former AFP personnel, Kathrine “Kat” Santos of the disbanded group Baywalk Bodies and three others were arrested on Wednesday night in Barangay Salvacion, La Loma, Quezon City.

QCPD director Brig. Gen. Remus Medina said that operatives from their District Drug Enforcement Unit (DDEU) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) National Capital Region Office conducted the buy-bust operation in front of a house in Iba Street.

However, the suspects sensed that they were transacting with police operatives and tried to drive away aboard their black Toyota Fortuner.

A brief chase followed, with the suspects firing at the operatives, prompting the latter to return fire.  The chase only stopped after the fleeing suspects bumped into another vehicle along Tecson Street in Manila’s Barangay 379.

A former AFP officer has been arrested on drug charges. He also engaged in a shootout before being apprehended. 

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/regions/824657/3-cops-arrested-for-alleged-extortion-robbery-sexual-assault-in-leyte-pnp-imeg/story/

The Philippine National Police-Integrity Monitoring Enforcement Group (PNP-IMEG) on Friday said three cops in Palo, Leyte were arrested for multiple extortion, robbery, and sexual harassment.

In a statement, the IMEG identified the cops as Police Senior Master Sergeant Alex Garciab Asis, Police Staff Sergeant Raffy Mendoza Retosar, and Police Corporal Jerwin Neopus Dacillo.

The Visayas Field Unit Office arrested the police officers in an entrapment operation.

Citing a report from the IMEG, PNP chief Police General Dionardo Carlos said these cops were allegedly extorting money for almost four months from a suspect they arrested for extortion in October 2021.

The suspect-turned-victim is already out on bail following her arrest in an entrapment operation in a medical mission, the police said.

3 cops have been arrested for extorting and sexually assaulting a woman for the past four months.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1169676

The Sandiganbayan anti-graft court sentenced five Caloocan City village officials to up to eight years imprisonment for falsification of public documents arising from bogus appointments.

The anti-graft court’s Fourth Division affirmed the 2018 decision of the Caloocan City Regional Trial Court Branch 21, handing down penalties of six months to eight years on Barangay 48, Zone 4 Chair Wilfredo Camus, and councilors Benito Ching, Claro Ponce, Zacarias Ferrer, and Ramon Acuña.

The 10-page decision dated March 11 and recently published online also ordered the five to pay a fine of PHP2,000 each.

The Sandigan rejected the accused’s sole basis of appeal that they have been deprived of due process because of the lackluster performance of their lawyer.

Five Caloocan City officials have been sentenced to eight years in prison for falsifying documents.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1169666

A mayoral candidate of Calamba, Misamis Occidental survived an assassination attempt by a motorcycle-riding gunman on Sunday.

Lt. Col. Michelle Olaivar, Police Regional Office-10 spokesperson, said George Matunog Jr., 55, is in stable condition at Mayor Hilarion A. Ramiro Sr. Medical Center in Ozamiz City.

The bullet pierced his nape and exited through the right portion of his cheek.

A Quick Response Team vehicle of the Calamba police station first took the victim to Calamba District Hospital.

The security camera footage showed Matunog was walking along a main road in Purok 1 of Barangay Southwestern Poblacion when shot at close range by a back-rider of a motorcycle that sped by.

A mayoral candidate running as an independent but under the coalition of Duterte and Marcos has survived an assassination attempt by unknown men.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1567792/piston-leader-survives-slay-try

A leader of a transport group survived an assassination attempt right at his home in General Santos City on Sunday morning.

Larry Villegas, chair of the Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (Piston) in the Soccsksargen (South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, and General Santos City) region, was cleaning his tricycle at the front yard of his house in Buayan village at around 6 a.m. when two men on a motorcycle stopped and opened fire at him.

Villegas, 64, was able to duck but was hit in the leg, said Sonia Eugenio, regional coordinator of Makabayan. He was immediately rushed to a hospital.

By Sunday afternoon he was conscious and was due to undergo an operation for his gunshot wounds.

She said Villegas, who is also the coordinator of party-list group Bayan Muna in General Santos City, was already being targeted because of his involvement in issues concerning drivers and transport groups.

The coordinator of party-list group Bayan Muna survived an assassination attempt.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/429994/far-from-over-ahong-files-another-criminal-case-vs-7-lapu-village-chiefs

Another criminal case was filed by Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan against seven barangay captains who earlier filed a complaint against him before the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas.

This time, Chan filed a case of Grave Oral Defamation in relation to Cyber Crime Prevention Act against Association of Barangay Council (ABC) president and Bankal Barangay Captain Eduardo Cuizon, Gun-ob Barangay Captain Eleonor Fontanoza, Looc Barangay Captain Regina Ybañez, Tungasan Barangay Captain Triponia Abayan, Subabasbas Barangay Captain Joselito Tibon, Canjulao Barangay Captain Reynaldo Tampus, and Maribago Barangay Captain Rosalino Abing.

The case was filed before the City Prosecutor’s Office.

Chan said that he filed the case against the barangay captains for fabricating stories and allegations against him.

The mayor of Lapu Lapu has filed more cases against the branchy captains who filed charges against him for malversation of funds.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1569521/barangay-chair-companion-nabbed-in-leyte-buy-bust

Law enforcers arrested a barangay chairman and his companion in a Leyte buy-bust and seized from them P680,000 worth of crystal meth, locally known as “shabu.”

The suspects were identified as Rogelio Daño, the 57-year-old chairman of Barangay Santa Fe in Matalong, and Cesario Lambujon, 35, according to a report to Gen. Dionardo Carlos, the chief of the Philippine National Police.

Daño is also the president of the Association of Barangay Chairpersons in Matalom.

The two suspects were arrested in a buy-bust at around 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 16, in the Baywalk area, Barangay Kalanggaman in Bato, Leyte.

A Barangay chairman and his friend were busted for drugs.