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(Eagle News)–The criminal complaint filed against former Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde and 13 policemen behind the 2013 irregular raid in Mexico, Pampanga is now deemed submitted for resolution. This was after Albayalde and the other respondents swore by their rejoinder-affidavits at the Department of Justice. Apart from Albayalde, also present was Police Major Rodney Baloyo IV, who led the police team in the raid, and 11 of his former men. Only SP01 Ronald […]
(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo has deferred commenting on former PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde and the allegations he intervened in the cases filed against several of his men over an irregular 2013 drug raid in Pampanga. In an interview posted on her Facebook page on Sunday, Nov. 10, Robredo said although the Senate has already come out with its findings, she had yet to read the findings of the Philippine National Police and […]
(Eagle News)–New administrative charges have been filed against the 13 policemen behind the irregular drug raid in Pampanga in 2013. Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said the charges for serious irregularity in the performance of duty for mishandling of confiscated drugs and instruments; dishonesty for making untruthful statements in their affidavits of direct participation; grave misconduct for giving false testimony against the accused and making untruthful statements when they testified under oath during the Senate Blue […]
(Eagle News)–The policeman who was among those behind two controversial raids in Antipolo and Pampanga has been dismissed. Philippine National Police officer-in-charge Police Lieutenant General Archie Gamboa said he gave the order for the dismissal of Police Lieutenant Joven de Guzman. De Guzman was among the 13 behind a 2013 drug raid in Mexico, Pampanga which the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group ruled had been marred with irregularities. The CIDG said the policemen led by […]
(Eagle News)–Former Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Benjamin Magalong has welcomed the charges recommended against former Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde by a joint Senate panel that probed the ninja cops issue. It was Magalong, now the Baguio mayor, who told senators about Albayalde’s call to then-Central Luzon regional police director Aaron Aquino for him not to implement the dismissal order against the 13 policemen behind an irregular drug raid in Mexico, Pampanga […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine National Police on Saturday, Oct. 19, said it would “let justice, fairness, and due process of law take its course.” The PNP issued the statement a day after the release of the Senate joint panel that probed recommended the filing report that recommended the filing of charges against former PNP chief Oscar Albayalde and 13 other policemen behind a 2013 irregular drug raid in Pampanga. It added however that “all accused remain […]
(Eagle News)–The joint Senate panel that probed the ninja cops issue has recommended the filing of charges for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act against former Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde and the 13 policemen behind the irregular drug raid in Mexico, Pampanga in 2013. In a televised press conference, Senator Richard Gordon, chair of the justice and human rights panel, said Albayalde in particular violated Section 3a of the law, which […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Justice on Wednesday, Oct. 16, kicked off its reinvestigation into the cases against the 13 policemen behind an irregular drug raid in Mexico, Pampanga in 2013. Police Major Rodney Baloyo, who was cited in contempt by a Senate joint panel probing the matter for lying and was ordered jailed at the New Bilibid Prison, was a no-show in the hearing at the DOJ in Manila but he was represented by his […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Justice has subpoenaed the 13 policemen behind the 2013 Pampanga raid as the DOJ reopened its probe following testimonies before a joint Senate panel hearing the issue of ninja cops. Summoned for appearance on Oct. 16 at 10 a.m. were Police Major Rodney Baloyo IV, Senior Insp. Joven Bognot Jr., SP01 Jules Maniago, SP01 Donald Roque, SP01 Ronald Santos, SP01 Rommel Vital, SP01 Alcindor Tinio, SP01 Eligio Valeroso, P03 Dindo […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Justice is reopening the case against the 13 policemen behind a 2013 Pampanga raid that was found to have been irregular. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said the DOJ will create a new panel of state prosecutors for the reinvestigation, which was in light of “new evidence unfolding, and in the interest of justice. “Both sides will be given ample opportunity to present additional evidence,” Guevarra said. He said the DOJ “shall […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Richard Gordon has called for a lifestyle check on Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde, after he was accused of intervening in the cases filed against 13 policemen who were found to have conducted an irregular drug raid in Pampanga in 2013. In a radio interview, Gordon said he also wants the 13 policemen led by then-Col. Rodney Baloyo subjected to the lifestyle check. Baloyo and his group were ordered dismissed in 2014 […]
(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 […]
