Published June 14, 2021, 4:21 PM
MONTEJO (center). (FB photo)CEBU CITY – Police Brig. Gen. Ronnie Montejo, chief of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO 7), warned suspected drug personalities that they face the fate of three men who were killed in a gunfight during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Taptap here Thursday if they won’t stop their illegal activities.
Montejo said the operation showed that the relentless campaign against illegal drugs will never waver as he commended that police units involved in the seizure of 10 kilos of suspected shabu with an estimated value of P68 million from three suspects.
“Undang namog pamaligya o gamit anang drogas kay duha ra gyud padulngan ninyo, prisohan o sementeryo (Stop selling or using illegal drugs because you will end up in jail or in cemetery),” warned Montejo.
Published April 21, 2021, 4:52 PM
CEBU CITY A police major fears for his safety following the murder here of a 35-year-old woman who filed a string of charges against a group of policemen.
Police Major Alejandro Batobalonos, chief of the Philippine National Police Integrity Monitoring and Enhancement Group-Visayas Field Unit (IMEG-VFU), said he didn’t know what hit him after learning that Ritchie Nepomuceno was gunned down by two motorcycle-riding assailants in Barangay Basak-Pardo around 6 p.m. Monday.
“Sa nahitabo ni Nepomuceno, mura ko’g na blangko unsa akong buhaton kay nibati pud ko’g kabalaka sa akong security (Because of what happened to Nepomuceno, I felt confused. I don’t know what to do because I am also worried over my security),” said Batobalonos.
Woman who accused Cebu City cops of torture, rape shot dead
Apr 19, 2021 11:33 PM PHT
John Sitchon
A woman who accused Cebu City police of extortion, torture, and rape was killed at around 7 pm on Monday, April 19.
Police Major Alejandro Batobalonos, chief of the Integrity Monitoring and Enhancement Group Visayas Field Unit (IMEG-VFU), confirmed this on the same evening.
Batobalonos told Rappler in a phone interview that the woman was shot dead along N. Bacalso Avenue in Cebu City by unidentified assailants.
The victim was identified as Ritchie Nepomuceno, a 35-year-old woman from Minglanilla town, in Cebu.
“Gipatay gyud siya sa may N.Bacalso sa may Barangay Basak Pardo
Cebu City mayor suspends allowances of police involved in torture case
Apr 7, 2021 8:05 PM PHT
John Sitchon
Cebu City will be suspending the government-funded allowances of police involved in the torture and extortion of two women in Pasil Police Station 6, Mayor Edgar Labella announced on Wednesday, April 7.
“This is a notice to all the other members of the police force that they should not do this,” Labella said.
“The allegations were heavy, the victims were extorted, there was a carnal advantage. This is unacceptable for police enforcers ,” he added.
In a phone interview on Monday, April 5, Police Major Alejandro Batobalonos, Chief of the Integrity Monitoring and Enhancement Group Visayas Field Unit (IMEG-VFU), told Rappler that two women came out against cops from Pasil Police Station 6 (Sawang Calero Police Station), who are said to have tortured them inside a secret room.
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A couple on Wednesday appeared before the Integrity Monitoring and Enhancement Group (IMEG)-Visayas Field Unit and accused the group of Police Staff Sgt. Celso Colita of “hulidap” (abduction-robbery).
Colita was the team leader of the 10 policemen from the Sawang Calero Police Station who were accused of robbing a woman whom they picked up from her house in Minglanilla, Cebu on suspicion that she was keeping illegal drugs and unlicensed firearms.
Colita was also accused of raping the 35-year-old woman twice in a motel.
Colita’s alleged cohorts were identified as Police Chief Master Sgt. Eric Edgar Emia, Police Corporal Rochelito Mabulay, Police Corporal Emmanuel Martinez, Police Staff Sgt. Joseph Alcoseba, Police Staff Sgt. Michael Rhey Cabizares, Police Corporal Carlo Irizari, Police Corporal Junel Pedroza, Police Corporal John Carl Aceron, and Police Corporal Georny Abrasado.