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(Eagle News)–Another judge has inhibited herself from hearing the criminal cases in connection with the 2016 kidnapping and murder of Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo. With her inhibition from the kidnapping for ransom with homicide, kidnapping and serious illegal detention, and carnapping cases against Supt. Rafael Dumlao, Police Chief Master Sergeant Ricky Sta. Isabel and Jerry Omlang, Judge Irin Zenaida Buan of the Angeles City Regional Trial Court Branch 56 became the second judge to […]
(Eagle News)—A Pampanga court has ordered the release from restrictive custody of a police officer who was charged in connection with the killing of South Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo. In granting SP04 Roy Villegas’ motion for the same, Branch 56 noted the police officer had completed his testimony as a state witness in court. It also junked the arguments of accused Ricky Sta. Isabel and Jerry Omlang to oppose Villegas’ motion pending their motion before […]
(Eagle News) — The Court of Appeals has rejected the plea of a primary suspect in the killing of South Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo for his fellow policeman to be stopped from testifying in court. In junking SP03 Ricky Sta. Isabel’s plea for a temporary restraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction on a Pampanga court’s order allowing SP04 Roy Villegas to be discharged as state witness, the 13th Division said he failed to “sufficiently […]
(Eagle News) — The killing of South Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo by rogue policemen is not on the agenda when President Rodrigo Duterte visits South Korea from June 3 to 5. Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Strategic Communication and Research Ernesto Abella said, however, that if the issue was raised, the President “will reassure (South Koreans) that everything that needs to be done is being done and that we will assure that justice will be done.” […]
(Eagle News) — Nag-inhibit ang isang hukom ng Regional Trial Court sa pagdinig sa kaso ng pagdukot at pagpatay sa Korean businessman na si Jee Ick Joo. Sa lumabas na kautusan noong Marso 15, nilinaw ni Judge Irineo Pangilinan Jr. ng Angeles City RTC branch 58 na kusang loob siyang nag-inhibit at hindi dahil sa apela ng akusadong si Police Superintendent Rafael Dumlao III. Ito ay nang ideklara ni Judge Pangilinan na gawing state witness […]
(Eagle News) — The Angeles City Regional Trial Court has granted the bid of prosecutors to allow one of the police officers implicated in the kidnapping of Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo to turn state witness. Judge Irineo Pineda Pangilinan Jr. of Branch 58 said that SP04 Roy Villegas’ testimony “is absolutely necessary to prove conspiracy among the accused who are charged with conspiring and confederating with each other on the alleged abduction of […]
Pinakakasuhan na ng Justice Department ng kidnapping for ransom with homicide ang anim na tao–kabilang na ang isang mataas na opisyal ng pulisya—sa pagdukot at pagpatay sa negosyanteng Koreano na si Jee Ick Joo nitong nakaraang taon. Ang mga pinakakasuhan ay sina Supt. Raphael Dumlao III, Jerry Omlang, Gerardo Santiago at Ramon Yalung. Pinakakasuhan din ng special complex crime ng kidnapping for ransom with homicide sina SP03 Ricky Sta. Isabel at SP04 Roy Villegas. Si Isabel ay […]
(Eagle News) — Wanted: New antidrug personnel. The newly formed Drug Enforcement Group of the Philippine National Police is in search of new recruits who will lead the government in its re-launch of the war against drugs. In his first-ever press conference as head of the DEG, Senior Supt. Graciano Mijares said on Friday that 477 personnel were needed for the unit, which only recently replaced the PNP Anti-Illegal Drugs Group. The PNP-AIDG and all antidrug units […]
(Eagle News) — Wanted: Young policemen “lacking in skills, experience, but with a pure heart.” These are the kinds of policemen the Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa wants in the new team that will be tasked to go after illegal drug personalities. Dela Rosa made the statement as the national police prepare for a war against drugs that had been temporarily suspended following the kidnapping and killing of South Korean businessman Jee […]
(Eagle News Service) — Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Thursday that he might allow the phone conversation recorded by Ricky Sta. Isabel’s wife to be played in the Senate inquiry looking into Jee Ick-Joo’s killing. Lacson, chair of the committee on public order and dangerous drugs conducting the investigation, said the Jan. 14 recording–which Jinky Sta. Isabel said would prove her husband’s innocence and would implicate her husband’s immediate superior, Supt. Raphael Dumlao—should however first be […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa assured the Korean community and the public that he will do his best to avoid the repeat of the “tokhang for ransom” and murder of South Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo under the Duterte Administration. Dela Rosa said that he believes that if the same case happened again under his watch, he will not be surprised if he will be […]
