13 dead in Quezon Shootout

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MANILA, Philippines – The National Bureau of Investigation has yet to receive a Philippine National Police committee fact-finding report that said the January 6 shooting of 13 men in Atimonan, Quezon was an ambush

Source: NBI waiting for PNP 'ambush' report | ABS-CBN News

[tingkagol]

Hahaha. Gubota.

Hilig man gyud ni ug overkill ang mga pulis nato. Kahinumdum mo ani nga balita?

Spoiler! 

Source and Pics (NSFW): Child Taken Hostage Killed by Police

Philippine National Police chief Director General Leandro Mendoza ordered the relief yesterday of the entire Pasay City police force from its chief down to the lowest ranked policeman, as a result of the bungled hostage rescue in the city that resulted in the death of a four-year-old hostage victim.

All 341 officers and men of the police station under Supt. Eduardo de la Cerna, who was earlier relieved from his post, will undergo retraining and re-orientation while a replacement force from the National Capital Regional Police Office will take over.

Meanwhile, National Police Crime Laboratory head Chief Supt. Jose Marlowe Pedregosa, said victim Dexter Balala succumbed to two fatal wounds in the head and left kidney.

Quoting autopsy results on the victim, Pedregosa said the victim, Dexter Balala suffered five stab wounds and five bullet wounds.

A bullet that hit the boy's heart and a stab wound in the back that hit his left kidney caused his death Pedregosa said.

The Crime Laboratory also revealed that slain-hostage-tagker Diomedio Talbo was tested positive for metamphetamine hydrocholride or shabu in the blood, indicating recent use of the prohibited drugs.

"This probably explains Talbo's unpredictable, erratic, and incoherent behavior as seen from video footage of the scene," said Deputy Director General Hermogenes Ebdane Jr., PNP deputy chief for administration.

De la Cerna said that a SWAT sniper claimed twice he tried to take out Talbo but his line of sight was blocked by "somebody" from the media.

At least eight security guards detailed at the Philtranco bus terminal where the botched hostage taking rescue attempt that killed the hostage taker and the four-year-old victim have undergone paraffin testing at the Southern Police District (SPD) Crime Laboratory in Makati City, along with 19 policemen.

Hasta ang bata (hostage) gipusil ug apil sa mga pulis. Champion.

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Hastang paeta aning mga police nato. Mga trigger happy kaayo, kahinumdum pa mo sa na happen pod diri sa Cebu katong mga employees sa Plantation Bay nga ila gi rak rakan kay naalaan lang. Milagro lang jud to kay sa 72 to bullet holes sa van, wa gyuy namatay ato nila pero sus ang kakuyaw kaha sa ila na feel ato di kabayran sapi.

Ka delikado na ba aning Pinas, sa una mga kriminal ra angay nato kahadlokan pero karon mas kahadlokan pa diay mga police kaysa mga kriminal.

[Alenceo Bao Studs]

By Non Alquitran, The Philippine Star

MANILA, Philippines - There was no shootout.

Instead there was excessive use of force, and 13 men in a two-vehicle convoy drove into an ambush by a joint police-military contingent in Atimonan, Quezon last Jan. 6.

This is the conclusion of a fact-finding committee created by Director General Alan Purisima, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), to investigate the incident that killed an alleged jueteng lord along with three policemen, two airmen, and two intelligence agents who were disowned by the military.

The committee, led by Chief Superintendent Federico Castro of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, is also recommending administrative charges against 15 policemen at the checkpoint as well as the former head of the Quezon provincial police, which could lead to their dismissal from the service.

Among the findings of the committee, apart from excessive use of force, is that standard operating procedures for checkpoints were violated.

Doubts were raised on the actual positions of two fatalities found outside the vehicles. Inconsistencies were noted in the positions of some of the fatalities who supposedly fired guns.

The committee could not determine the nature of the wounds suffered by Superintendent Hansel Marantan, who reportedly headed the police team at the checkpoint, because he refused to submit himself for physical examination. Marantan was the only member of the contingent wounded in the supposed encounter.

“All the facts presented in this case indicate the possibility that an ambush occurred instead of a shootout,” a source privy to the work of the fact-finding committee told The STAR last night.

Purisima will get the four-page report today from the committee. The report will be forwarded to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), which is the principal agency handling the probe.

Among those to be recommended for inclusion in the charge sheet are Marantan, head of the Calabarzon Regional Special Operations Group (RSOG); Senior Superintendent Valeriano de Leon, who was sacked last week as Quezon police chief; and Chief Inspector Grant Gollod, who was also relieved last week as police chief of Atimonan town.

Sources said Director James Melad, police chief of Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon), may be spared despite Marantan’s pronouncements that the operation to apprehend jueteng lord Vic Siman at a checkpoint in Atimonan was cleared with Melad and De Leon.

As RSOG chief, Marantan reported directly to Melad, who is said to have rushed to the scene of the killing from his headquarters at Camp Vicente Lim in Laguna, a drive of several hours from Atimonan.

Gollod served as deputy of Marantan when the latter headed the Quezon police Provincial Mobile Group.

A police official said the maximum penalty in an administrative case is dismissal from the service. Some or all of the 15 could also face criminal charges that relatives of the 13 slain men reportedly plan to file.

Purisima sacked all 15 policemen manning the supposed checkpoint but spared Melad.

The PNP fact-finding committee will include in its report pictures taken at thesite indicating tampering with evidence.

A police official said the PNP report does not speculate on possible motives for the killing although evidence pointed to a rubout rather than a shootout.

“The report will only enumerate the evidence we gathered at the crime scene, which would be investigated further by the NBI,” the official said.

Yesterday The STAR came out with two pictures taken at the scene. The first showed one of the 13 fatalities sprawled on the pavement outside one of the Mitsubishi Montero sport utility vehicles. The second photo showed the same body, but with a pistol near his hand.

The official said the two photos were taken before and after the arrival of Scene of the Crime Operatives to inspect the site.

'Benefit of the doubt'

Meanwhile, Sen. Panfilo Lacson urged the public yesterday to wait for the final reportfrom the NBI and not prejudge the policemen at the checkpoint.

“Let us give them the benefit of the doubt,” Lacson told radio station dzBB, saying it was hard to be “convicted in the bar of public opinion.”

He recalled the same condemnation when he was accused of leading a police teamthat killed members of the Kuratong Baleleng gang in 1995, when P30 million in cash supposedly went missing.

“I just hope the police officers will not lose their will and (allow) criminality to prevail,” he said.

Lacson admitted that Melad and Superintendent Glenn Dumlao, who reportedly hatched the operation plan for the case against Siman, were his former men in the defunct Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force.

For his part, Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr. urged the appropriate Senate committees yesterday to conduct a probe, in aid of legislation, into the Atimonan incident. – With Christina Mendez

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ambush or rub out ?? makaduda ...

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Mga ebidensya sa crime scene sa Atimonan 'ginalaw'

Hindi diumano shootout kundi ambush ang nangyari sa sinasabing engkwentro sa Atimonan, Quezon kung saan 13 tao ang napatay. May indikasyon din diumano na ginalaw ang mga ebidensya sa crime scene. Base ito sa kopya ng inisyal na report ng PNP fact-finding group at mga litrato sa crime scene na ipinakita sa ABS-CBN News. Nagpa-Patrol, Karen Davila. TV Patrol, Enero 14 2013, Lunes


PNP: Evidence at Atimonan crime scene moved | ABS-CBN News

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Buguya aning mga pulis uy. Gipangbutangan lagi ug pusil. Mura manig foul play sa CSI.

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sa akoa analyst ambush jud cya kay clear man kaau ang position sa mga victims nga wal gani cla naka sukol ato .... last night sa tv. patrol gi feature ni kabayan noli kato KSP before ana nga incident naa pa jud nahitabo nga shootout " kunohay" mostly sa mga victims ato nga naa sa mga kamot ug sa ulo meaning naka surrender na cla tapos gi rakrakan ....... same lang dihapon ni nahitabo.

[markokintolimbo]

unsaun nga idol man nila c ping lacson ug ilaha ra gi copy & paste ang nahitabo sa kuratong baleleng " rubout" .....

[tingkagol]

Mga former PAOCTF diay ning mga pulisa....