Mayor’s son arrested (9:50 p.m.)
CEBU CITY — Talisay City Mayor Socrates Fernandez’s son Joavan was presented to Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 22 Judge Manuel Patalinghug Tuesday morning after he was detained at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) overnight.
He was then turned over to the Talisay City Jail Tuesday noon, where he will await trial on the serious illegal detention case against him and five others. Pre-trial is on the 23rd.
He will be held without bail, unless the court gets convinced to rule otherwise after a bail motion and a hearing.
“Two of the complainants have already backed out but the two others still remain,” said Mayor Fernandez in Cebuano when asked if the arrest came as a surprise.
The mayor went to the NBI office about an hour past midnight, Monday, to check on Joavan. He said he heard about the arrest from a Talisay City police official who phoned him while he was already in bed.
The mayor is currently the subject of an Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas fact finding for allegedly giving money and offering jobs to the complainants if they withdraw the charge against Joavan. (Sun.Star Cebu)
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