Tag: druglord

Odicta lawyer killed in Capiz

(Eagle News)—–A lawyer of alleged druglord Melvin Odicta was shot dead in Roxas City, Capiz on Friday, Sept. 27. Edel Julio Romero was shot in the head as he was having lunch with his partner at  12:40 pm, the police said. Romero was supposed to be boarding a roro vessel to go back to Manila, where he was based. The gunman fled on board a sport utility vehicle with no plate number. Romero, meanwhile, was […]

Where is “body of evidence?,” Kerwin Espinosa asks in reiterating call for dismissal of drug raps vs him

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa on Tuesday, May 15, reiterated his call for the drug-related charges filed against him to be dismissed. In his response-affidavit submitted before the new Department of Justice panel looking into the cases filed against him and several others, Espinosa said his “admission” he was a drug distributor in a Senate hearing in 2016 should not be used against him because there was no “proverbial corpus […]