It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.
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| https://www.manilatimes.net/2024/02/04/regions/village-chief-shot-in-bulacan/1930981 |
THE police are on the lookout for the two suspects in the shooting of a barangay chief in Santa Maria, Bulacan, on Friday evening.
PCol. Relly Arnedo identified the victim as Julian Rosillas, 59, married, and chairman of Barangay Mag-asawang Sapa in Santa Maria, Bulacan.
Two unidentified suspects shot Rosillas in front of the barangay hall, Arnedo said.
Rosillas suffered two gunshot wounds and was immediately rushed to Rogaciano M. Mercado Memorial Hospital for treatment.
Arnedo said the victim is now in stable condition but added that the attending physician has recommended the transfer of Rosillas to Bulacan Medical Center Provincial Hospital.
Police investigation showed that the gun attack took place at around 8:30 p.m. while Rosillas was outside the barangay hall. Two suspects onboard a black motorcycle appeared and one of them shot the victim twice in the abdomen.
The suspects fled after the shooting.
Operatives from the Santa Maria Police Station immediately conducted an investigation and manhunt to find the suspects.
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| https://mb.com.ph/2024/2/4/3-soldiers-nabbed-in-tarlac-buy-bust |
Three soldiers were nabbed and suspected shabu worth P340,000 was seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Anupul here on Sunday night, February 4.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Tarlac identified the suspects as Corporal Venancio D. Delmoral, Corporal Juan Carlo G. Feliciano, and Sgt. Modesto D. Rosquero.
PDEA said that the suspects were considered high-value targets due to their active duty status.
Recovered from the suspects were a knot-tied transparent plastic sachet containing more or less 50 grams of shabu worth P340,000, a .45 caliber service firearm with magazine and four bullets, a car, and the marked money.
The operation was conducted with the local police.
Suspects face non-bailable case of violating Section 5 (sale of dangerous drugs) in relation to Section 26-B (conspiracy to sell) under Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002
Three soldiers have been busted for drugs.
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| https://www.philstar.com/nation/2024/02/06/2331289/sc-sacks-3-ca-employees-shabu |
The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the dismissal from the service of three Court of Appeals (CA) employees who tested positive for shabu in 2022.
In full session, SC justices found Garry Caliwan, Edmundo Malit and Frederick Mauricio administratively liable for using illegal drugs under Section 14(o) of Rule 140 of the Rules of Court.
The CA employees tested positive for shabu in a random drug test conducted by the appellate court in 2022.
The CA transmitted the case records to the Judicial Integrity Board (JIB), which recommended to the SC the dismissal of Caliwan, Malit and Mauricio.
Since Mauricio opted for early retirement, the JIB recommended that his benefits be forfeited, except his accrued leave credits, instead of dismissal from the service.
The JIB also proposed that Mauricio be disqualified from holding public office.
The high court agreed with the JIB’s recommendation of dismissal as penalty, considering that it was the second time that the CA employees tested positive for shabu.
Three SC employees who tested positive for shabu for the second time have been dismissed.
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| https://mb.com.ph/2024/2/5/police-general-colonel-ordered-detained-at-house |
The House Committee on Public Order and Safety cited in contempt two high-ranking police officers for their apaprent refusal to tell the truth in relation to the alleged unlawful arrest, arbitrary detention, extortion, and grave coercion of four Chinese nationals last September 2023 in Parañaque City.
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo moved to detain Southern Police District’s (SPD) Brigadier General Roderick Mariano and Colonel Charlie Cabradilla for supposedly lying and showing disrespect to the the committee during its probe on Monday, Feb. 5.
Tulfo called out Mariano for being a “disgrace to the Philippine National Police (PNP), especially to the high-ranking officers”.
“Obvious na obvious na nagsisinungaling ka, obvious na obvious na pinagtatakpan ka,” Tulfo told him to his face.
(It's obvious that you're lying, it's obvious that they’re covering up for you.)
“This investigation is not going anywhere because they’re really lying, we already have witnesses, and they don't want to talk,” the lawmaker added.
“We don’t have a choice, it's like your committee is being insulted, played with, laughed at. Maybe they thought we’re just toddlers here in Congress so we have to teach them a lesson,” he told the panel chaired by Santa Rosa City lone district Rep. Dan Fernandez.
The House panel cited both Mariano and Cabradilla in contempt. They were slapped with a penalty of 30 days in detention at the House premises.
The two will join six other detained officers who were previously cited in contempt during a committee hearing on Jan. 30.
Originally detained for only 15 days, the detention of the six officers was extended to 30 days or “until such time they reconsider their statements” to the panel.
Fernandez bared that he expected the officers to be freed during Monday's proceedings, but he decided against it after the individuals continued to lie.
“The problem is you continue lying. I would like to release them but the lying persists,” noted Fernandez.
Two high ranking cops have been detained by the House for lying.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1218361 |
The Supreme Court (SC) has suspended a judge in General Santos City for gross neglect due to a 10-year delay in deciding on a rape case.
In a statement Tuesday, the high court said it imposed a two-year suspension on General Santos City Regional Trial Court Branch 35 Judge Oscar P. Noel Jr. as “a result of gross neglect of duty in his role as Assisting Judge (Justice on Wheels) in Alabel, Sarangani province.”
The Office of the Court Administrator inquired about an administrative complaint alleging a prolonged delay in a criminal case under Noel's jurisdiction since 2010.
Noel clarified that another judge initially presided over the rape charges against a certain Jimmy dela Torre filed on Oct. 30, 2007 and that he only assumed responsibility for it on Feb. 11, 2010, concurrently presiding over three different courts.
The case was heard in Maasim, Sarangani, with the Justice on Wheels (JOW) bus traveling to and from General Santos City once a month.
Noel said infrequent hearings were caused by his high caseload and time constraints, with hearing resets taking two to three months.
The Judicial Integrity Board (JIB) recommended that Noel was guilty of gross neglect of duty and meted him with a PHP250,000 fine. The SC adopted the JIB's findings but modified the penalty to a two-year suspension.
The SC cited invoked Section 15(1), Article VIII of the Constitution, mandating lower courts to decide cases within three months.
“Efficiency and dedication in case disposition were stressed by the SC, highlighting the inevitability of delays to the prejudice of litigants without such qualities. Judges, therefore, must possess a high sense of duty and responsibility in administering justice promptly,” the court said.
Under Rule 140 of the Rules of Court, as amended by AM 21-08-09-SC, the SC categorized the offense as gross neglect of duty in the performance or non-performance of official functions under Section 14(d).
A judge has been suspended for sitting on a rape case for 10 years.
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| https://mb.com.ph/2024/2/6/barangay-kagawad-falls-in-drug-sting |
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested a barangay kagawad or councilor in a buy-bust operation in this town on Monday, February 5.
The suspect was identified as Jaimes Bernard N. Peralta.
PDEA-Ilocos Director Joel Plaza said confiscated from the suspect were three heat-sealed transparent plastic sachets containing suspected shabu weighing more or less five grams worth P34,000, a cigarette box, a motorcycle, and the buy-bust money.
Peralta faces a case for violation of Section 5 (Sale of Dangerous Drugs) and Section 11 (Possession of Dangerous Drugs), Article II of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
The suspect is detained at the PDEA Pangasinan Provincial Office in Urdaneta City, Pangasinan.
A barangay councilor has been busted for drugs.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1900429/3-ex-govt-officials-convicted-for-graft-malversation |
The Sandiganbayan on Tuesday convicted for graft and malversation three former officials of the defunct Technology Resource Center (TRC) for greenlighting the disbursement of a former Laguna lawmaker’s “pork barrel” funds worth P10 million for a ghost livelihood project in 2007.
The antigraft court’s Sixth Division sentenced former TRC deputy director general Dennis Cunanan, former program manager Maria Rosalinda Lacsamana and chief accountant Marivic Jover to serve up to eight years in prison for graft, and up to 18 years and eight months for malversation of public funds.
All three were barred for holding public office while their retirement and gratuity benefits were deemed forfeited … On top of this, they were each ordered to pay P9.8 million—equivalent to the misappropriated state funds. They were also ordered to “solidarily refund” to the treasury bureau the same amount, with an interest of 6 percent per annum until fully paid.
The conviction of the three TRC officers was based on the irregular diversion in 2007 of P10 million in public funds from the pork barrel of then Laguna Rep. Danton Bueser to bankroll a livelihood program that turned out to be fictitious.
According to the court, the TRC sent the funds to a bogus nongovernmental organization (NGO), the Aaron Foundation Philippines Inc., without a notarized memorandum of agreement (MOA) against Commission on Audit rules. A MOA was later executed, but only after the funds were released to the NGO. There was also no list of beneficiaries, estimated cost, procedures for implementation and monitoring requirements.
3 former government employees have been convicted of graft.
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| https://mb.com.ph/2024/2/7/cop-shoots-wife-dead |
A policeman assigned to Isabela, Basilan allegedly shot his wife during a heated argument inside their house in Barangay San Jose Gusu here on Saturday, February 3.
Police identified the suspect as Police Staff Sgt. Julius Santillan Ocariza.
Investigation said Ocariza repeatedly fired at his wife, Fredellen, killing her on the spot.
Police recovered three fired cartridge cases and two fired bullets from a 9mm pistol in the crime scene.
Ocariza escaped but was later arrested by the police.
Zamboanga City Police Office Operations Officer Police Major Albert Alfaro denounced the killing in a press conference on Tuesday, February 6.
A cop has killed his wife.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1901387/village-watchman-shot-dead-by-sibling-in-lipa-city |
A barangay tanod (village watchman) was shot and killed on Wednesday, Feb. 7, by his younger brother in Lipa City, Batangas province on Wednesday, Feb. 7, police said Thursday.
The Batangas police said in a report that Jason Gangga, 44, was driving his tricycle around 7:30 p.m. with his wife as passenger, along J.P. Laurel Highway in Barangay Balintawak.
Suddenly, Jason’s younger sibling, Jonel, 36, who had been following the couple with his motorcycle, came close to the tricycle and shot his brother using a caliber 357 gun.
The suspect fled after the shooting and left his brother dead on the spot from a fatal gunshot wound on his head. His wife was unhurt in the incident.
The police immediately conducted a hot pursuit operation and captured the suspect in Barangay Bolbok.
The police seized the handgun used in the killing.
Lipa City police said the shooting incident was motivated by an “old grudge” between the two brothers but did not elaborate.
A village watchmen has been assassinated by his brother.
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