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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
7 escape rehab, hogtie worker
By Joy G. Romares
* Patient pounced on nursing aide who was doing the rounds
* Eight tried to escape but one was cornered by center's staff
* Police decry center's refusal to cooperate in investigation
SEVEN patients of a private rehabilitation center escaped in an incident in Bajada last Sunday that would have escaped police attention had it not leaked to military sources.
Police Officer 1 Eric Ramirez of the Santa Ana Police Precinct said they were not aware about the daring daylight escape at the Dela Rosa Psychiatric and Rehabilitation Center until they received a call from the Davao City Police Office (DCPO).
"Gipa-verify sa amoa kung tinuod ba nga naay hostage-taking kay murag gihilom lang sa mga staff sa rehab (The DCPO asked us to verify the report about the hostage-taking because there seemed to have been no report about it)," Senior Police Officer 3 Joel Banosan of the Santa Ana Police told Sun. Star Davao.
It turned out that the DCPO got the information from the Military Intelligence Group (MIG).
Banosan said Ramirez then went to the area and managed to eke out details about the incident after identifying the hostaged nurse aide, Ronnie Comingking.
Comingking said he was on his way to the patients' quarters to attend to their needs, bringing with him several keys when a patient, one Leonardo Guino-o, grabbed him and stuck a sharpened toothbrush on his neck, using this like a knife to threaten him.
Guino-o hogtied Comingking and got his bunch of keys, which he used to free seven other patients, namely, Roy Azarcon, Jucares Buan, Nuridin Kambang, Joldhats Sirsuat, Floyd Abellanosa, Basair Kambang, and a certain Rico Raca.
Raca, however, was cornered by some staff members who by then were alerted to what was happening.
"The staff of the rehabilitation center refused to cooperate. We had to force them to give us the names of those who escaped. They also did not tell us the backgrounds of the patients so we cannot say if all those who escaped were drug dependents), maybe some of them are psychotic, but they're all patients of the rehabilitation center," Ramirez told Sun. Star Davao in the dialect.
"Definitely, mag-conduct gyud og follow-up investigation ang IS ana na incident (The Intelligence Section of the DCPO will definitely conduct a follow-up investigation on this)," he added.
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