Thursday, December 04, 2008 Cop in illegal lumber transport identified By Jerson O. Coronica
THE Binalbagan police station named the police officer who was one of the four suspects nabbed for illegally transporting "hot" lumbers in a police checkpoint last November 27.
The police identified Senior Police Officer (SPO) 1 Ezequil Poblacion as one of the four suspects arrested by Task Force Ilahas (TFI), led by SPO1 Stanley Mendoza, at Crossing Sumakwel in Barangay San Jose, Binalbagan City.
On Saturday, the TFI recovered 1,646 board feet of sliced lumbers being transported by Poblacion's group onboard a Fuso cargo truck.
The suspects failed to present authorization to transport the lumbers being issued by the Kabankalan Community Environmental and Natural Resources (CENR) when rounded by the Binalbagan police.
Police said 1,319 board feet of narra lumber, 242 board feet of acacia lumber and 75 board feet of gemilina lumber, worth a total of P138,000, were confiscated from the four.
Poblacion's alleged cohorts were identified as Hernando Aguisanda, 52, driver-owner of the truck; and helpers Henry Cortez, 36; and Wilfredo Naporan, 50.
Aguisanda is a resident of Terrace Homes in Barangay Taculing, Bacolod City while Cortez and Naporan both hailed from Barangay Manoling in the town of Cauayan.
Formal complaints for violation of Section 77 of Presidential Decree (PD) 705 or the Forestry Code of the Philippines will be filed Wednesday against the suspects by the Kabankalan CENR, town police and the TFI.
