De Lima vows to catch Mancao
By Christine O. Avendaño
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima has vowed to catch fugitive double murder suspect Cezar Mancao II.
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima has vowed to catch fugitive double murder suspect Cezar Mancao II.
Discounting earlier documented reports that fugitive Palawan former governor Joel Reyes and his brother, Coron Mayor Mario Reyes, had fled abroad using fake passports, police investigators claim that the two escaped suspects are still very much around in the country.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has not given up the search for and arrest of retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan as ordered by a Bulacan judge in December 2011 for the abduction of two University of the Philippines students in Bulacan in 2006.
A man long wanted for the 2005 murder of a barangay (village) chairman in Antique province was arrested Monday morning at his house in Quezon City.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is bracing itself for possible “zombie” attacks in the coming 2013 midterm elections.
Retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan, infamously tagged as “berdugo” (butcher) by militant activists, is the last of his kind in the military, so says Lt. Gen. Emmanuel Bautista, the chief of the Philippine Army.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has ordered police and special so-called “cracker teams” to intensify the manhunt for the “Big Five” fugitives even as she admitted that the trail for the country’s most-wanted fugitives had grown cold.
Calling their excuses “flimsy,” the Court of Appeals (CA) has denied the bid of the lawyers of fugitive retired Gen. Jovito Palparan and two other military officers for an extension of their time to question their prosecution in connection with the disappearance of two University of the Philippines (UP) coeds.
The two immigration officers who allegedly facilitated the departure of former Palawan Governor Joel Reyes and his brother, Coron Mayor Mario Reyes, would be dismissed from the service and criminally prosecuted if probers established that they aided the fugitives in fleeing the country, Bureau of Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. said on Thursday
There’s still hope that fugitive real estate developer Delfin Lee would be arrested because he is still in the Philippines, Vice President Jejomar Binay said Monday, quoting immigration and police authorities.
The newly created Community Investigative Support (CIS) of the police force will help hunt down the country’s most wanted fugitives.
Sen. Panfilo Lacson, a former head of the Philippine National Police, said Friday that President Aquino’s “disappointment” at the failure of the police to catch several high-profile fugitives and his decision to increase the bounties for their capture meant only that the PNP has been remiss in its duty.
Apparently displeased with the continued failure of the authorities to account for high-profile fugitives, President Aquino on Thursday raised the respective bounties for suspects wanted for various crimes.
