Police chief of Muntinlupa, 8 officers in extortion cases dismissed

Muntinlupa's police chief and eight of his agents were relieved of their posts after kidnapping A woman and her seven-year-old son in a fake police operation were turned into robbery

Members of the police Regional Special Operations Unit (ARS) of the National Capital Region arrested members of the Muntinlupa Police Station. during a trapping operation on the fourth floor of the police station, Friday afternoon

Officers arrested were SPO1 Psylo Joe Jimenez, M 3 Romeo Par, M 2 Farvy de la Cruz and the M 1 Jon-Jon Averion

members – SPO1 Edgardo Zervoulakos, M 3 Charlie Miranda, M 3 Roderick Slvador – including his boss, Insp. Mark Kevin Pesigan, escaped and remained free on Saturday afternoon

NCRPO responded to a complaint from a 35-year-old man that SDEU staff was asking for P400,000 in exchange of his partner and their son.

An investigation revealed that the eight police officers of the SDEU broke into the complainant's home in Barangay Tunasan at 11 am on Friday "under the guise of a lawful police operation".

They arrested his 33-year-old partner and their son for alleged possession of illegal drugs. The drug agents, however, also transported family money, jewelry, cell phones, a TV and a laptop.

Around 1:30 am on Friday, police called the man using his partner's phone. He claimed 400,000 P for the release of his family.

He managed to bring the ransom back to 40,000 P and asked the NCRPO for help.

After handing the tagged money to one of the suspects around 3 pm Friday, members of the NCRPO-RSOU broke into the police station and found the kidnapped wife and son in a gym next to the SDEU office on the fourth floor of the building.

Some members of the SDEU locked themselves in their office. police officers who responded to open the door. The police managed to arrest four of their colleagues, while four others managed to escape

The NCRPO was able to recover the stolen property in Dela Cruz's car, which was parked in front of the police station.

cell phones, identity cards, cash of $ 25,000 and a wallet containing a sachet of crystal meth (shabu).

The family's LED TV was found in another Jimenez car. NCRPO Director Guillermo Eleazar ordered the South Police District to remove the Chief Superintendent. Dionisio Bartolome as chief of the police station of the city of Muntinlupa, while they are conducting an internal investigation.

The arrested police claimed to have carried out an "illegal drupal anti-drupal operation". But Eleazar claimed that they "did not present the necessary documents. support the legal arrest of the victim, including ad hoc reports, coordination documents with the Philippine Anti-Drug Agency (PDEA) and a request for laboratory examination at the Crime Lab to confirm whether the recovered evidence was illicit drugs

were arrested at the police station of the city of Muntinlupa, where other drug suspects that they had previously arrested were also imprisoned.

They were charged with kidnapping for ransom and robbery. Dela Cruz would also be charged with a violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act.

A furious Eleazar welcomed his men into prison, shouting to them: "Kakahuli lang [ng mga pulis] his Maynila dahil din his flight – extortion na yan! Hindi pa kayo madala-dala?"

Two weeks ago, Eleazar kidnapped three police officers from the Ermita Police Station in the Manila Police District.

M1 Radam Manglicmot, Edmar Cayanan and Jeff Pee Calaguas posed as OPEA claimed P300,000 of 10 suspects they had arrested for drug possession.

"paano tayo magiging epektibo [sa pagresolba sa issue ng illegal drugs] kung merong mga ganito saing hanay?" Eleazar said.

The NCRPO chief expressed consternation but warned scalawag policemen that he would be willing to use the "internal iron fist hand of cleansing" to recover the trust and confidence of the public. -With the reports of Roselie Mari Villaflor and Kristel Limpot