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Saturday, January 14, 2006
Tayug judge, Pangasinan prosecutor in serious threats
TAYUG -- A Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge and an assistant provincial prosecutor here are under threats to their lives from still unidentified persons following the dismissal of the murder and theft charges against the suspects in the high-profile Paas case.
Threatened were RTC Judge Ulysses Raciles Butuyan of Branch 51 and Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Noel C. Bince Sr. who both hold office in the Municipal Justice Hall.
Butuyan requested two police escorts from the Tayug police, which Chief Inspector Rhode Espero, the town's police chief, immediately granted.
The judge received threatening text messages after he dismissed the cases filed against the two accused in the brutal slaying of Pasig City Judge Estrellita Paas in the town of Natividad.
Butuyan suspects that the threat against him may have something to do with the Paas case.
On the case of Bince, he believed that the attempt against the life of his 22-year-old son Noel last December 22 in front of their residence in Barangay B, Tayug was actually meant for him. The prosecutor's son was hit in the foot after he was shot at by two motorcycle-riding men using a caliber 45 pistol.
Witnesses said the driver of the motorcycle was overheard talking in Ilocano chastising his companion for shooting a wrong man before they zoomed eastward. The victim was rushed to the Eastern Pangasinan District Hospital before he was transferred to a hospital in Manila.
Police said threats to Butuyan and Bince might have come from the same group. The two officials handled cases against the suspects in the Paas slay. (Pangasinan Star/Sunnex)
(January 7, 2006 issue)
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