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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Cop in entrapment dismissed from PNP
By Karlon N. Rama
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
PO3 Paquito Monterroyo Jr., the policeman caught receiving money in an entrapment operation two years ago, has been ordered dismissed from police service.
The Office of the Ombudsman for the Military and other Law Enforcement Offices, in a resolution, found Monterroyo “guilty of grave misconduct tantamount to being notoriously undesirable and thereby meted the penalty of dismissal from service.”
The resolution, which is for immediate execution, was signed by Deputy Ombudsman Orlando Casimiro. It was penned by Graft Investigator Rey Camilo Dumlao II and was approved last July 29 yet.
Monterroyo’s penalty also includes the cancellation of his eligibility for re-employment with the government as well as the cancellation of whatever benefits he has accrued in his years in government service.
Copies of the resolution will also be furnished to the chief of the Philippine National Police.
Monterroyo, who used to be with the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) Vice Control Section, also faces a criminal case in Lapu-Lapu City.
The case in Lapu-Lapu City, as in the one resolved by the anti-graft office, stemmed from the same entrapment operation organized by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
The NBI launched the entrapment, which later on became a sour point between the agency and some members of the PNP officialdom in Cebu City, after businessman Mino Disomundeg reported how seven heavily armed men blocked him as he was driving home last Aug. 9, 2003.
The group, Disomundeg said in a subsequent affidavit, introduced themselves as officers of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and asked him for money. If he refuses, the group leader supposedly said, he’d be dragged into a drug case they intend to make up.
Disomundeg said he gave the group some cash but, last Aug. 11, 2003, he received a call from the group leader, who he later identified as Monterroyo, demanding P300,000 more.
He said he again reasoned that the amount was too big, prompting the group leader to lower it to P200,000, due the next day.
Disomundeg supposedly went to the NBI after that and the entrapment operation was hatched.
The NBI arrested Monterroyo outside the Gaisano-Mactan Mall in Lapu-Lapu City. Caught in his possession was an envelope full of bills previously dusted with ultraviolet powder. He later tested positive with powder when brought to the crime laboratory.
Monterroyo denied the charge, saying it was Disomundeg who wanted to meet with him. He said Disomundeg was supposedly going to give him a list of people involved in the drug trade.
“Undeniably, it is overwhelmingly established that (Monterroyo) indeed consummated his illegal acts which practice deserves an unforgivable punishment,” the Office of the Ombudsman for the Military and other Law Enforcement Offices however found. (KNR)
(July 13, 2005 issue)
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