Tacloban City Jail escapee yields in Minglanilla

ANOTHER escapee from the Tacloban City Jail was recaptured in Minglanilla town, southern Cebu.

Anthony Arillas was turned over by his parents to operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7), said NBI supervising agent Greg Algoso Jr. in yesterday’s meeting with the Coordinating and Advisory Council (PCAC).

“There was no resistance. He was willing. And we advised him that he just continue to serve his sentence,” Algoso said.

Arillas, who was convicted for murder, had been in jail for seven years before he escaped when supertyphoon Yolanda struck Tacloban in Nov. 8.

Arillas told the NBI-7 that he reached Cebu on board a C-130 plane along with other typhoon survivors.

Algoso said recaptured inmates will be given “proper human treatment” and will be transported back to Tacloban.

Senior Supt. Danilo Constantino, chief of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), said they have asked the officials of Tacloban City Jail to provide the PRO-7 with pictures of the escapees to track their whereabouts as some are hiding in Cebu.

“”Unfortunately the soft and hard copies of the pictures that we requested were also damaged,” Constantino said.

Four escapees have been arrested in Cebu—two in Mandaue City, one in Cebu City and one in Bohol province.

Constantino ordered the Mandaue, Cebu, and Lapu-Lapu police to take photos of evacuees in evacuation centers for the possible identification of the escapees.

Constantino also asked the public to help the police in identifying the escapees by reporting to the police should they notice unfamiliar faces in their neighborhood.

At least 20 out of the 161 escapees from jails in Tacloban City and Palo town, have been recaptured./CORRESPONDENTS JOSE SANTINO S. BUNACHITA AND MICHELLE JOY L. PADAYHAG