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(Eagle News) — The Caloocan Regional Trial Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of the two policemen implicated in the murder of Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman. The warrant issued against P01 1 Jeffrey Perez and Ricky Arquilita was dated January 23, 2018, and was signed by Judge Georgina Hidalgo. It came after the two were formally charged in court for murder, their alleged violation of the Anti-Torture Law and for their alleged […]
(Eagle News) — The parents and two siblings of slain teenager Reynaldo De Guzman are now under the Witness Protection Program. Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre, said Eduardo Gabriel, Lina de Guzman and their children, aged 17 and 12, were placed under provisional coverage after the couple visited him the other day. “I told the parents of ‘Kulot’ that they can trust the government’s (WPP),” Aguirre said. De Guzman and his friend Carl Angelo Arnaiz went […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Friday said the groups holding alleged witnesses to the killings of Carl Arnaiz, Kian Loyd delos Santos and Reynaldo de Guzman have an ulterior motive: To revive the impeachment complaint filed against President Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court. “Natanong niyo bakit di nila nirerelease? Tama sinasabi ko noon…Para mabuhay ang patay nila na kaso laban sa pangulo sa ICC,” he said, referring to the complaint […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Friday decried what he said was the refusal of Risa Hontiveros’ camp and the Rise Up for Life and for Rights to allow investigators to interview alleged witnesses into the killings of Carl Angelo Arnaiz, Kian Loyd delos Santos, and Reynaldo de Guzman, an act an anti-crime group has said was already tantamount to “obstruction of justice.” Aguirre said for instance, the investigators looking into the killing of Delos […]
(Eagle News) — Despite questions about his identity, the boy whose lifeless body was found in Gapan, Nueva Ecija on Sept. 6 was laid to rest as 14-year-old Reynaldo de Guzman on Wednesday. “Talagang sa amin po, anak po namin dahil kamukha ng tatay yung buong kabuuan ng mukha. Talagang sa amin talaga po ‘yan,” Lina, De Guzman’s mother, told reporters after quick burial rites held at Pasig City Cemetery. Lina made the comment even […]
(Eagle News) — The body found in Nueva Ecija is not 14-year-old Reynaldo de Guzman’s. This is according to the Philippine National Police, that conducted an autopsy on the body found in a creek in Gapan days before. De Guzman went missing after he and his friend Carl Angelo Arnaiz went out to buy midnight snacks. Police said Arnaiz was killed in a police shootout that ensued after the teenager fired at policemen who were […]
Refutes police version of events (Eagle News) — The taxi driver allegedly held at gunpoint by Carl Angelo Arnaiz surfaced on Sunday, and claimed the statement police showed in public was not his. In a press conference, Tomas Bagcal said in the police station, he was “only asked” his birthday, name, age and then the OR/CR of his vehicle. He said this was after a man he picked up from Navotas and who was later […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte believes some parties are out to “sabotage” the government’s war on drugs, which some say was used as pretext to claim the lives of three boys, including Carl Angelo Arnaiz, whom the President described as his relative. “Silipin mong mabuti kasi may (nananabotahe). Sinasadya talaga iyan..Bantay ka riyan, may nagluluto diyan to discredit (the government),” he told Philippine National Police Chief Roland dela Rosa, who was with him when […]
(Eagle News) — Fourteen-year-old Reynaldo de Guzman had been dead for 12 hours when he was found in Gapan, Nueva Ecija on Wednesday. Public Attorneys Office Forensic Lab Director Erwin Erfe said it also appears De Guzman was already dead when he was stabbed over 20 times. “Wala kaming nakitang tama ng baril kay Kulot,” he added, referring to the boy’s nickname. As for De Guzman’s friend, Carl Angelo Arnaiz, Erfe said based on their […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella on Thursday expressed “profound dismay” over the death of 14-year-old Reynaldo de Guzman, as he admitted the “whole nation was in the process of rethinking how we do things” as a result. “It is with profound dismay that we regard (De Guzman’s) disturbing death..,” he said during a news briefing. According to Abella, the National Bureau of Investigation has “already been ordered to conduct a thorough investigation and case […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Thursday ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to locate the taxi driver who was supposedly robbed by Carl Angelo Arnaiz on the day he was killed by alleged pursuing police. Aguirre gave the order to locate Tomas Bagcal, who had said that Arnaiz had held him at gunpoint and then had taken his wallet on Aug. 18. In one version of his affidavit, Bagcal said Arnaiz declared […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte met with parents of slain teenager Carl Angelo Arnaiz on Wednesday. Apart from Duterte, and Carlito and Eva Arnaiz, also in the meeting at the Malago Clubhouse in Malacañang–based on pictures provided by the Department of Justice—were Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre and Public Attorneys Office chief Persida Acosta. The 19-year-old Arnaiz and his 14-year-old companion Reynaldo de Guzman went missing on Aug. 18 after they went out to buy […]
