Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Vice governor’s son accused of pointing gun at ex-employee
A former employee of the family of Cebu Vice Gov. Gregorio Sanchez Jr. reported to the Fuente Police Station that the official’s son mauled and threatened to kill him last Sunday.
Mark Anthony Damaolao, 25, told police that Greco Sanchez picked him up at his residence in Green Hills, Casuntingan, Mandaue City about 9:50 a.m. last Sunday.
Greco was allegedly with three companions - one named “Kid”, an unidentified male, and Greco’s girlfriend Rea.
They rode a white Pajero van, with a plate number in front marked “Vice Gov”, to the mountain barangay of Taptap, Cebu City.
Damalao alleged that when they reached Sitio Tupas, the suspects disembarked and then grabbed his cell phone. Greco then allegedly pointed a gun at him and threatened to kill him.
This prompted him to jump out of the vehicle, Damalao said.
He fled on foot and asked for help from residents in the area. He was taken to the barangay hall in Taptap. From there, SPO1 Joselito Yongco took him to the Fuente Police Station.
The vice governor said in an ABS-CBN TV Patrol report that Damalao can go to court; he will just provide his son with a lawyer.
“Let the law take its course,” he said.
But in a phone interview last night, Mark’s mother said she doesn’t want her son to file charges because she doesn’t want trouble.
“Our family respects the vice governor. We have campaigned for him,” Nelma Damaolao, 45, said. (CPG)
(September 20, 2005 issue)
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