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Saturday, July 22, 2006
CIIB to summon 6 cops named by suspect's wife
CRIMINAL Investigation and Intelligence Bureau (CIIB) Chief Pablo Labra II will ask six Cebu City policemen to see him in his office after the wife of a suspected big-time drug pusher accused them of extorting money from their family.
He hopes Gloria del Mar Regis will also submit a sworn statement so they can formalize an investigation on the six policemen.
Regis alleged that the six policemen often visited their house in Villagonzalo II, Barangay Tejero, Cebu City to ask money for gas or load for their cellular phones.
One of them also allegedly asked for medicine.
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña wants a deeper investigation on the matter. He said he will "definitely" take back the allowances of the policemen if the allegations are substantiated.
Transfer
Osmeña might also ask for their transfer outside Cebu City. But he will look at more reports and check on the background of the personalities involved before deciding.
"Right now I'm just getting all these from the newspapers," the mayor said.
Regis also accused another policeman, SPO1 Raymund Enriquez of the Cebu Provincial Police Office, of extorting P500,000 so that a case against her son Manny will not be filed.
After hearing the report, Cebu Provincial Police Office Director Vicente Loot immediately ordered Enriquez's relief from the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force and assigned him to the Provincial Security and Service Group.
Labra scheduled the meeting with the six policemen on Monday.
He told reporters some of the policemen mentioned were already on their watch list. But because of this report, the ones who are not on the list will be added to it.
For his part, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 7 legal counsel Clarence Paul Oaminal, in a radio interview, cautioned against taking Regis' statements "hook, line and sinker."
He said police should check her motive for telling this to the media.
"Nahug nga nag-abot ang duha ka buang (It's a case of two fools meeting)," he said.
Reporters tried locating five of the policemen yesterday afternoon, but none of them were at their respective police stations.
Only PO2 Stanley Aldemita of the Vice Control Section has denied the allegations, saying this was a common alibi of persons arrested for drug cases.
'Level 1 pushers'
Gloria and her husband Epifras were arrested late Tuesday night in Lapu-Lapu City.
Police tagged them as level one drug pushers who could allegedly dispose of one to two kilos of shabu a week. Epifras reportedly supplies shabu in Ormoc City, and the provinces of Negros, Bohol and Cebu.
Epifras is number three in the watch list of the Cebu City Police Office.
"Let me get some report first and let me look at all the facts, and we'll evaluate them," he said.
Regis, he added, was "one of the hardest drug operators to get" because of his extensive connections with authorities. (RHM)
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