Published January 16, 2021, 5:46 PM
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has welcomed the issuance of arrest warrants against the nine policemen accused of killing four Philippine Army (PA) intelligence personnel in Jolo, Sulu last June.
“Albeit issued belatedly, we are glad that the Regional Trial Court Branch 3 of Jolo found prabable cause to issue warrant for the arrest of the nine suspects in the murder of four Army intelligence personnel,” Major Gen. Edgard Arevalo, AFP spokesperson, said Friday.
“The arrest and subsequent detention of the suspects is without bail indicating that the court considers that the evidence of their guilt is strong.”
Court orders arrest of cops accused of killing Army men in Jolo By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News
Published January 15, 2021 10:37am
Updated January 15, 2021 3:10pm The Jolo, Sulu Regional Trial Court (RTC) has ordered the arrest of nine policemen accused of killing four soldiers in the town last June, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Friday. The court issued the arrest warrants on Thursday, said Prosecution Attorney Honey Delgado, spokesperson of the Office of the Prosecutor General. Delgado said the court is scheduled to hear prosecutors motion for a hold departure order (HDO) against the accused on Friday. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra confirmed this and said the court also issued hold departure orders (HDO) against the accused.
AFP calls on dismissed cops in Jolo shooting incident to surrender By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News
Published January 15, 2021 2:50pm The Armed Forces of the Philippines urged the dismissed police officers involved in the fatal Jolo shooting incident last year that left four Army officers dead, to surrender after warrants for their arrest have been issued. We urge the respondent police personnel to surrender else the AFP, the Philippine National Police, and other government agencies will vigorously search, find, and deliver them to court without delay to face trial for multiple murder, AFP spokesman Major General Edgard Arevalo said in a press statement Friday.
Published January 13, 2021, 5:31 PM
The Supreme Court (SC) has assigned a judge to handle temporarily the pending cases in Branch 3 of the Jolo, Sulu Regional Trial Court (RTC) where the four counts of murder had been filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) against nine police officers for the killing of four soldiers last year.
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In an administrative order issued by Chief Justice Diosdado M. Peralta, assigned to RTC Branch 3 of Jolo was RTC Judge Alsad Hailil Alfad Jr. of Branch 25 in Siasi, Sulu “to take cognizance of all urgent matters pending in the said court….”
Aside from the Jolo branch, Judge Alfad will also handle temporarily all cases pending in RTC Branch 4 of Parang, also in Sulu.
Another judge temporarily assigned to 2 Sulu courts amid lockdown By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News
Published January 13, 2021 2:03pm Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta has designated another judge to temporarily take care of urgent matters in two courts in Sulu, one of which is handling the murder case against police officers accused of killing four soldiers in Jolo last year. Peralta assigned Judge Alsad Hailil Alfad of the Siasi, Sulu Regional Trial Court (RTC) as acting presiding judge of Branch 3 of the Jolo RTC and of Branch 4 of the Parang RTC. The case for murder and planting of evidence against nine dismissed police officers allegedly involved in the killing of four Army officers last June is pending with the Jolo RTC.