(Eagle News)–The joint Senate panel looking into the Good Conduct Time Allowance law has cited in contempt the policeman who led the raid in the 2013 Pampanga raid.
Rodney Baloyo was placed in contempt after lawmakers chastised him for being evasive and for taking too long to answer.
Senator Richard Gordon asked the Senate sergeant at arms to detain Baloyo in “not so nice quarters.”
Gordon initially said Baloyo would be detained in the Pasay City jail, but later changed his mind and said he wanted him detained in the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa.
A Criminal Investigation and Detection Group probe has found Baloyo and 12 other policemen presented to the media only 30 kilograms of the 200 kilograms of shabu they seized in the November 2013 raid in Woodridge subdivision in Mexico, and of presenting to the media a man different from the one they arrested during the raid.
A dismissal order was issued against them in 2014 but this was never implemented.
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Aaron Aquino, who served as Central Luzon police director, said Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde, then the National Capital Region Police Office director, called him in 2016 to ask him to review the case against Baloyo and the 12 policemen, who were his men when he was Pampanga police director.
Aquino later said Albayalde asked him to not implement the dismissal order.
Albayalde said that while he did call Aquino, he never influenced him into doing anything.
