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Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Suspect worked under him: sketch reminded Sandalo
By Karlon N. Rama
WHEN Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) Director Cecil Ezra Sandalo saw the cartographic sketch of a suspect in the killing of Hindang, Leyte Mayor Roy Jumao-as and his son Jake last Thursday, one face came to his mind.
Sandalo told reporters that when he was chief of police in Talisay City, PO1 Roque Marsan Bisnar, who lived in Barangay Mohon, was assigned under him for about six months.
“I knew him quite well,” Sandalo said.
Bisnar was transferred outside Region 7 because there were complaints against him for being involved in illegal drugs.
Sandalo then sent to Talisay City a team composed of Supt. Pablo Labra II, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Bureau, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group 7 operative Insp. Benjamin Pepino, Homicide Section Chief Mario Monilar, and Homicide investigators SPO1 Dennis Moga, SPO1 Jay Yballe, PO3 Fredilson Codilla and PO3 Atillano Ferrolino.
Policemen now have two witnesses. A sidewalk vendor was just three meters away from where the two gunmen opened fire at Jumao-as and his son last Thursday.
He told police that one of the gunmen had a tattoo of a heart pierced with a nail on his right shoulder.
Another resident who was hanging her laundry also saw the two men run right past her after seven shots were fired.
In Mohon, the witnesses immediately identified Bisnar, who was standing among several residents in the area. Bisnar was brought to the CCPO for questioning.
Just then, the two witnesses looked at each other and realized they also saw someone familiar when they were in Barangay Mohon.
They returned to the area and saw Neddy Polistico fixing Bisnar’s fence.
The two lost no time in telling the police that Polistico was with Bisnar in the afternoon of March 4, the day of the shooting.
A heart tattoo was on Polistico’s right shoulder.
Double murder charges were filed before the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office against Bisnar and Polistico yesterday afternoon.
Preliminary investigation is scheduled on March 19.
The witnesses’ identification of the two suspects was the basis for the arrest of Bisnar and Polistico, who have denied involvement in the killings.
Police can no longer submit the two men to a paraffin test. Gunpowder residue, if any, would have been gone by now from the suspects’ hands.
Bisnar underwent police training at the Regional Training School in 1996 and was immediately assigned in the Regional Mobile Group (RMG) after six months.
Two years later, Bisnar was assigned at the Talisay City Police Station under Sandalo’s leadership.
Letters reaching city officials about his alleged involvement in drugs led them to seek his relief. Bisnar was then assigned in Canlaon, Negros Occidental.
Last year, Bisnar was moved to the Mandaue City Police Office under the Canduman Police Station.
Last week, he assumed his post as beat patrol officer of the Subangdaku Police Station.
Bisnar lives with his wife Jane and two children in Sitio Laray, Barangay Mohon, Talisay.
(March 9, 2004 issue)
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