Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Jail escapee caught hiding under the bed
OFFICERS of the Carcar City Police Station recaptured a CPDRC escapee hiding under a bed in his parents’ house in Perrelos, Carcar late Sunday afternoon.
Senior Supt. Carmelo Valmoria, Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) director, presented Gilbert Palang, a 23-year-old murder suspect, to Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia yesterday noon.
Garcia is considered the jailer at the Capitol-run Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), where Palang escaped from last March. She is also the chairperson of the Regional Peace and Order Council.
Garcia lauded the Carcar City Police Station headed by SPO3 Jonas Pananganan, who escorted Palang yesterday to the Capitol alongside Valmoria.
“You can expect more support from the Province,” said Garcia.
She did not reveal how much, but the governor said she will give a reward to the civilian who sent a text message tipping the police of Palang’s presence in his parents’ house.
Reward
The reward will serve as a signal to the community to cooperate with the police, she added.
Palang escaped through the window of their isolation cell and climbed the two perimeter fences of the jail last March 3. He was with Ronnie Tabora, 22, who was caught hiding under the bushes a few feet from the fence immediately after the escape.
Palang, who is facing murder charges for the shooting of an employee of the National Irrigation Administration in August 2004, said he escaped because he was missing his parents.
But Gov. Garcia told him he could not cite that as reason for the escape because he was hiding in Cawayan, Negros Occidental while his parents were in Carcar.
Palang went back to Cebu last Sunday because he was also named as one of those involved in another murder case in Cawayan.
He denied this, but he said his named was included because the real suspects in the Cawayan murder took shelter in the same house that he was temporarily staying in.
A text message from a civilian informed the Carcar City Police Station of Palang’s arrival from Negros at about 1 p.m. last Sunday.
An eight-man team led by SPO1 Oscar Cantay surrounded Palang’s house in Perrelos, Carcar at 5 p.m. He refused to come out of the house, so the policemen went inside, where he was found hiding under a bed.
While he was at the Carcar detention cell, Valmoria revealed, his parents went to the station to turn over his firearm.
Palang also asked Garcia for “forgiveness” but Garcia said it is not her duty as a jailer to forgive, and that he has to answer for his actions. He also asked that he not be harmed when he goes back to jail, and Garcia replied that Palang may have gotten it wrong because she is not a criminal. (JPM)
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