Cop tagged in slay transferred

It may take some time before Superintendent Rommel Miranda can once again go for a jog inside Camp Crame.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) Wednesday said that Miranda, the principal suspect in the killing of businesswoman Leah Angeles Ng, has been taken to the PNP Custodial Center in Camp Crame following reports that he was often seen jogging inside the police main headquarters.

Chief Superintendent Generoso Cerbo Jr., PNP spokesperson, said the erring police official was immediately brought to the detention facility on Tuesday night shortly after he attended a hearing on the murder case filed against him.

Pasig Regional Trial Court Branch 153 Judge Aida Estrella-Macapagal had ordered Miranda’s transfer to the prison facility after Ng’s relatives complained that the police was too lax on the suspect.

“We want to assure the victim’s family that the PNP will comply with the instruction of the court regarding (Miranda’s) detention,” Cerbo told reporters.

He said that Miranda was last assigned to the Police Holding and Administrative Unit office in Camp Crame after the Department of Justice approved the filing of a murder case against him and four others.

“But he could jog around the camp since he was only ‘restricted to quarters’ and not yet detained,” Cerbo explained. Miranda, the former spokesperson of the National Capital Region Police Office, was tagged as the mastermind in the grisly killing of Ng, who had a lending business, earlier this year. Her body was found in a septic tank in Laguna province, more than a month after she went missing.  Marlon Ramos