(Eagle News)–Rodney Baloyo, who led the 2013 drug raid in Pampanga which the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group said was irregular, is now detained in a cell at the New Bilibid Prison, as seen in this picture given by the Bureau of Corrections to Eagle News.
Baloyo was cited in contempt on Thursday, Oct. 3, for being evasive under questioning by senators on the drug raid.
Baloyo, who was a colonel at that time, had insisted the raid took place in the afternoon of Nov. 29, a remark disputed by at least three witnesses who said it took place in the morning.
Baloyo has also maintained his team seized only 36 kilograms of shabu from the raid, and not 200 kilograms, as claimed by former CIDG chief Benjamin Magalong who conducted the CIDG probe.
Baloyo also denied his team had arrested one Johnson Lee during the raid.
Magalong has said the CIDG probe found Baloyo’s team did not report Lee’s arrest and told the media they had arrested someone else.
This led to speculations Lee had been allowed to escape by Baloyo’s team in exchange for money.
An irked Senator Richard Gordon initially ordered Baloyo detained in the Pasay City Jail, but later said he should be detained in a cell in NBP instead.
