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After skipping a preliminary investigation last week, hit-and-run suspect Jose Antonio Sanvicente appeared before the Mandaluyong City prosecutor’s office yesterday and responded to the criminal complaint filed against him.
The suspect in the hit-and-run of a security guard in Mandaluyong City last June 5 submitted his counter affidavit on Thursday, June 23, at the Mandaluyong City Prosecutor's Office during the second day of preliminary investigation. Jose Antonio Sanvicente, the owner and driver of the white Toyota
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(File photo) MANILA - The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Friday denied allegations of applying special treatment and double standard in the enforcement of the law. PNP director for operations, Maj. Gen. Valeriano de Leon, issued the statement after the police force drew flak for allegedly facilitating the press conference of Jose Antonio Sanvicente and his parents inside Camp Crame, Quezon City. "We were able to demonstrate to the Filipino people throughout the years that we enforced the law without fear or favor," de Leon said. This came in the midst of a public uproar over Sanvicente's apparent unwillingness to acknowledge his involvement in a ramming and hit-and-run incident which injured security guard Christian Floralde in Mandaluyong City on June 5. He said the PNP cannot allow anybody to enjoy a privilege in violation of the law, as this would compromise the police's integrity as a law enforcement organization. De Leon maintained that the Mandaluyong City