A day after claiming that he had escaped from the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) together with murder convict Rolito Go and three others, recaptured prisoner Rommel Laciste on Monday retracted his statement, now saying that he was alone when he bolted the national penitentiary on August 15.
It looks like there is a “semblance of truth” to the claim of high-profile inmate Rolito Go that he was kidnapped last week by men inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City, according to Justice Secretary Leila de Lima who was quick to add that this has yet to be confirmed.
Despite doubts raised by prison officials, the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday said it was still considering kidnapping as the likely motive behind last week’s disappearance of convicted road rage killer Rolito Go from the state penitentiary in Muntinlupa City.
An official of the New Bilibid Prison on Friday said the level of security of convicted murderer Rolito Go will be increased from minimum to medium or maximum following his alleged kidnapping.
Convicted road rage killer Rolito Go has been engaged in various business activities, ranging from moneylending to mining, while staying inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City.
Convicted murderer Rolito Go is back in the stockade, the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief has gone on leave and five jail guards have been sacked as President Benigno Aquino ordered a probe into how a high-profile inmate disappeared from prison for at least 24 hours.
High-profile prisoner Rolito Go is now in the custody of the Philippine National Police after he went missing from the New BIlibid Prisons (NBP) in Muntinlupa City Tuesday night, a PNP spokesman said Thursday.
On July 2, 1991, construction magnate Rolito Go stormed out of a diner in San Juan, Metro Manila, after a fight with his girlfriend.
Another high-profile prisoner at the state penitentiary has given prison officials the slip.
A sex trade is flourishing in the maximum-security compound of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP), according to insiders at the national penitentiary. Moneyed prisoners wanting a break from their routine can pay for sex with prostitutes through inmate-pimps, or even with female employees of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), the insiders told the Philippine Daily [...]
A Makati court granted the request of former Batangas Governor Jose Antonio Leviste to undergo a preliminary investigation first before he is arraigned for allegedly evading his prison sentence, effectively deferring his scheduled arraignment yesterday. Leviste’s lawyer Joseph Benedict Gesmundo said his client’s request was merely a “remedy provided to the accused by the rules [...]
A Makati court has ordered that former Batangas governor Jose Antonio Leviste, a homicide convict, undergo a preliminary investigation before his arraignment, which was originally scheduled Friday afternoon.
MANILA, Philippines—Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Monday ordered the Bureau of Corrections to first seek approval from her office before transferring inmates of the New Bilibid Prison to the penal farms. In a department circular, De Lima noted that the Department of Justice has been receiving several complaints about the purported “unreasonable or arbitrary [...]
