Incredible and inconsistent.
This was how former congressman and actor Dennis Roldan described yesterday the testimony of two of his coaccused and Police Anti-Crime Emergency Response (Pacer) agents who earlier tagged him as the mastermind in the 2005 kidnapping of a 3-year-old Chinese-Filipino boy.
Testifying in his defense, Roldan (Mitchell Gumabao in real life) told Pasig Regional Trial Court Branch 159 Judge Rodolfo Bonifacio that Pacer agents were forced to fabricate the charges against him because they had to cover up their mistakes.
“They made a mistake about my identity. They took me from my house without a warrant. If they had personal knowledge about my involvement [in the kidnapping], how come they did not get a warrant?” he said.
“My reputation was destroyed. We are talking about my life here,” said Roldan who earlier claimed he was now a full-time pastor with Jesus Christ the Life Giver Ministry Inc. based in Quezon City.
Aside from Pacer agents, Roldan’s coaccused Octovio Garces and Alberto Pagdanganan had also testified that they were ordered by Roldan and his alleged girlfriend, Suzette Wang, to kidnap the boy who was later rescued unharmed by authorities.