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Friday, December 16, 2005
Quezon City cops charged with robbery
APALIT -- A security officer of the Ang Dating Daan (ADD) Convention Center Thursday accused the Quezon City Police District Warrant and Subpoena Section (QCPDWSS) of looting and gross violations of the rules of court following a raid at the center in Barangay Sampaloc in the city last Wednesday.
"The raiding team violated the rules of court specifically Section 12 of Rule 113, citing the right to break into the building in which the person to be arrested is or reasonably believed to be," said retired police colonel Domingo de Guzman, chief security officer of ADD.
De Guzman said the raiding team does not even know who and where the exact place of the subject of the warrant of arrest was.
He said the raiding team - composed of more than 50 heavily armed policemen - destroyed the main gate of the ADD Convention Center, including doors of Larlin rooms located inside the compound of the center and looted the personal cellular phones of the people on sight.
The assault at the ADD center, de Guzman said, was an "overkill" show of force by authorities to flush out ADD minister Abner Martizano, allegedly accused of 26 counts of rape.
Martizano, a former minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo, later joined ADD after he was expelled because of a pending criminal case. He reportedly took refuge at the ADD Convention Center when he learned of a warrant issued for his arrest.
De Guzman said the raiding team left empty handed after the four-hour search in the entire compound of ADD. He said the subject of the warrant had already left three days before the raiding team arrived.
He declined to divulge the place where Martizano went.
On Monday, joint elements of the Pampanga police, the Quezon City police and the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) confiscated several unlicensed guns and volumes of ammunition during a raid at the temple of ADD in Barangay Sampaloc here.
Seized during the raid were .30 caliber shotgun; two pieces of .38 caliber revolvers and .30 caliber M1 winchester rifle.
Police said the .30 caliber M1 winchester rifle was confiscated from the room of one Abner Martizano Sr., a top ADD minister in Cotabato, who happened to be on his two-month vacation in the area.
The raiding went to the temple to serve the warrant of arrest issued by the Midsayap, North Cotabato Regional Trial Court (RTC) against Martizano for an "alleged rape" case. (MHD)
(December 16, 2005 issue)
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