Monday, March 17, 2008 Bogo escapees break into houses
EVEN after bolting out of jail, four minors still managed to break into some houses and steal rice, clothes, shoes, a digital camera and a guitar.
Bogo City Police Chief Tito Satera said the items were recovered from the minors who escaped from the Bogo City Jail Tuesday night.
Only three of the four were recaptured in Barangay Cayang, eight kilometers away from the city proper.
The four were resting in a hut in the middle of a field, tired from three days of hiding when Satera, SPO2 Sherwin Abellare and PO3 Geremias Awit caught up with them.
The items were found scattered around the hut.
Satera said they were outsmarted by the four minors, who told them they sawed off the iron grills of the detention cell for three days.
As one of them sawed off the grills, the three others made noise by singing and making drum beats.
They also tied clothes around the railings that were being sawed off.
Satera said a visitor had smuggled in the saw.
He has directed his police officers to be present whenever a visitor talks to a detainee.
He said they now have strict visiting hours while relatives who arrived to bring food for detainees will just have to leave it with a police officer.
Satera said he has finalized his complaint for simple neglect of duty against SPO1 Reynaldo Rosaceña while his criminal charge for infidelity in the custody of a prisoner complaint will be ready within the week.
He said Roseceña admitted his lapse will be afforded due process.
“We have to impose that disciplinary action,” Satera told Sun.Star Cebu. He said he thought he was being relieved from the post.
Satera said Rosaceña, the designated jailer that time, was not watching television when the escape occurred, contrary to a radio report.
He said the scheduled hours for watching television were issued when he assumed the post as Bogo City Police Station because he noticed that they were watching it non-stop.
Satera said Rosaceña left the station to respond to an alarm and not because he was going to watch television.
He said they were just waiting for a court to remand the four detainees to a youth detention facility in Argao town but the judge was on leave.
Two of the four minors were former detainees of the same Argao facility but bolted out of the center.
They were rearrested in Bogo City for stealing a motorcycle, which was why they were being detained there. (MEA)
