KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Apr. 24, 2009) – Police on Friday captured one of 15 prisoners who escaped from jail in Cotabato City in the southern Philippines, officials said.
Officials said Sukarno Sanday alias Oting Holdap was captured during a raid in his hideout in the village of Tamontaka 3 shortly before 6 a.m.
Senior Superintendent Willie Dangane, Cotabato City police chief, said the arrest of Sanday was a joint operation between the police, the military’s Task Force Tugis and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology.
Dangane, who organized the Task Force Bali-Piitan, said there is an ongoing operation to track down the remaining 14 escapees.
Chief Superintendent Fidel Cimatu, Jr. , the regional police chief, also ordered the police to double its efforts to bring these law breakers back to justice.
Police also linked two of the escapees - Adta Limba, alias Tah Pusher, and Kanakan Karim, also known as Kritikal - in the shooting of a poll official lawyer Rendon Gutierrez, 43, in Cotabato City on April 21.
Gutierrez, poll officer of Libungan town in North Cotabato, was shot in the head, but survived the attack and is recuperating at an undisclosed hospital, police said.
It said witnesses pointed to the two men as the shooters and they were among 15 prisoners who escaped April 16 from a jail in Cotabato City. (Geo Solmerano)
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Suspects in Esperat killing evade arrest - NUJP
Two regional agriculture officials accused of masterminding the brutal murder of journalist Marlene Esperat have apparently evaded arrest.
Reports have quoted Cotabato City police director, Sr. Supt. Willie Dangane that Department of Agriculture Region 12 finance director Osmeña Montañer and accountant Estrella Sabay could have fled the city after learning they would be served warrants of arrest.
“They are no longer here in the City,” Dangane said.
The two have been tagged as the brains behind the murder of Esperat, columnist of a weekly paper in Tacurong City, Sultan Kudarat, who was gunned down by three men as she was having dinner with her family in March 2005.
Last October 21, Judge Melanio Guerrero of the Regional Trial Court in Tacurong City issued a new warrant for the arrest of Montañer and Sabay after the case was transferred there from Cebu City.
Cebu City RTC judge Simeon Dumdum approved last September 28 the petition for the withdrawal of charges filed to allow the murder case to be heard before the Tacurong City RTC. The transfer came after the Court of Appeals in Cebu issued a preliminary injunction preventing the serving of the arrest warrants issued earlier by the Cebu court on February 4, 2008.
Before she was killed, Esperat had exposed alleged corruption in the agriculture department’s Region 12 office.
The three gunmen Gerry Cabagay, Randy Grecia and Estanislao Bismanos have been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. No mastermind has ever been successfully prosecuted in any of the 96 killings of journalist since 1986.http://www.asianpress.net/2008/10/30/suspects-in-esperat-killing-evade-arrest-nujp)
Reports have quoted Cotabato City police director, Sr. Supt. Willie Dangane that Department of Agriculture Region 12 finance director Osmeña Montañer and accountant Estrella Sabay could have fled the city after learning they would be served warrants of arrest.
“They are no longer here in the City,” Dangane said.
The two have been tagged as the brains behind the murder of Esperat, columnist of a weekly paper in Tacurong City, Sultan Kudarat, who was gunned down by three men as she was having dinner with her family in March 2005.
Last October 21, Judge Melanio Guerrero of the Regional Trial Court in Tacurong City issued a new warrant for the arrest of Montañer and Sabay after the case was transferred there from Cebu City.
Cebu City RTC judge Simeon Dumdum approved last September 28 the petition for the withdrawal of charges filed to allow the murder case to be heard before the Tacurong City RTC. The transfer came after the Court of Appeals in Cebu issued a preliminary injunction preventing the serving of the arrest warrants issued earlier by the Cebu court on February 4, 2008.
Before she was killed, Esperat had exposed alleged corruption in the agriculture department’s Region 12 office.
The three gunmen Gerry Cabagay, Randy Grecia and Estanislao Bismanos have been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. No mastermind has ever been successfully prosecuted in any of the 96 killings of journalist since 1986.http://www.asianpress.net/2008/10/30/suspects-in-esperat-killing-evade-arrest-nujp)
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