nag tuyok2 lang ang estorya naron ani d i ... saonz
nag tuyok2 lang ang estorya naron ani d i ... saonz
NBI not rushing store mauling case
By Mylen P. Manto and Niña G. Sumacot/BRP (The Freeman) | Updated May 1, 2013 - 12:00am
CEBU, Philippines - National Bureau of Investigation-7 Regional Director Antonio Pagatpat said their office is not rushing to file a case against those responsible for the death of alleged shoplifter Mario Alfie Ducayag as they don’t want to bungle it in court.
“Our investigation is still going on. ‘Wag nating madaliin para hindi ma-compromise ang kaso baka hanggang press conference lang tayo,” he said.
Pagatpat also said he will send an agent to the Cebu City Police Office for a case conference for their official takeover of the case.
The victim’s sister Marie Shantylle and her mother Fe Soledad went to NBI and talked with Pagatpat regarding the recent incidents including the attempt of the PNP to file charges against Gaisano Metro Colon CCTV camera operator Jeffrey Aquino last Monday.
Marie said they were happy with the arrest of Aquino by the Cebu Intelligence Branch but were shocked by what followed.
“The development of the investigation was fine but suddenly the CIB enters into the picture which is shocking and surprising,” she said adding they questioned the involvement of the CIB because it was the Homicide Section lead by SPO4 Alex Dacua who first handled the case.
Aside from that, she said the attempt of the CIB to file a murder complaint against Aquino was a disappointment.
She and her mother went to CIB chief Romeo Santander requesting them not to file the case to which the latter said yes, but last Monday the CIB tried to file it anyway. She added Santander has no word of honor.
“With their actions yesterday (Monday) we can say that they’re not helping in the progress and development of the case, they’re not helping us to find justice, if they’re helping us they would be transparent to us,” she said.
“We are not puppets in this show, we are the director, we know what to do and they should respect the decision of my mother but they have no word of honor, no transparency, they were liars yesterday, so there not helping us, you’re not helping us PNP after all…you are probably willing to help someone else,” she added.
Marie said they are not worried about to the release of Aquino. In fact, she said she hopes he can spend time his with his family and children before he will be formally charged.
The PNP arrested Aquino after the store head of security Mauricio Dublados and house detective Melvin Boyles pointed to him as the one responsible for the mauling the victim to death.
But the Ducayag family said they believe the two are also involved. They are also eyeing a civil case against Gaisano Metro Colon establishment considering the incident happened inside.
“We will certainly file damages against the establishment,” she said.
Mae Elaine Bathan, president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines Cebu City Chapter, said their office is willing to assist the family of the victim if they will ask.
She also said the PNP violated the rights of Aquino when they arrested him based on the affidavits of Dublados and Boyles. She said filing of complaint based on the statements of two people was weak.
Takeover
The CCPO is set to let the NBI take over the case.
“The Homicide Section and this office have decided to turn over the case to the NBI-7. If the NBI will request the affidavits of the witnesses, among ihatag nila,” said CCPO acting director Mariano Natu-el Jr.
In respect to Ducayag’s family, Natu-el said they released Aquino and did not pursue filing charges against him.
Contrary to the claim of the victim’s family, Natu-el also said they never assured them that they will not file a case against Aquino. He said he informed them they have already arrested a suspect based on witnesses’ accounts.
“As far as I can remember, wala gyud ko’y gisaad na di mo-file og kaso... It’s too unfit for me na di mag-file og kaso because we have arrested a suspect. Unsa man purpose namo pagdakop kung di mi mu-file,” Natu-el claimed.
Last Monday, police proceeded to the city prosecutor’s office to file a murder charge against Aquino but Natu-el said they eventually refrained from filing it because Ducayag’s family protested.
“Gi-respect na lang nato ang ilang tuyo na di i-file ang kaso and also para ma-avoid na ang kasamok,” the CCPO director said.
The CCPO director said the family should not generalize the whole organization of the Philippine National Police as having a bad image if they only have problems with PNP Crime Laboratory medico-legal officer Nestor Sator, whose autopsy report they claimed was wrong.
Natu-el added that they have been working on the case since they are also seeking justice for the death of the accused shoplifter. –(FREEMAN)
Source: NBI not rushing store mauling case | Cebu News, The Freeman Sections, The Freeman | philstar.com
Ducayag’s kin wants all suspects caught
By Kevin A. Lagunda
Thursday, May 2, 2013
THE sister of Mario Alfie Ducayag, who died inside a mall on Colon St., Cebu City after he was questioned by mall guards, clarified they are not defending the security camera operator even though they prevented the police from filing criminal charges against him.
“We believe he has participation (in the crime),” said Marie Shantylle. “He was one of the persons inside the room.”
She said they want to file complaints against Jeffrey Aquino, the Metro Gaisano closed-circuit television camera operator, and his other cohorts.
They are disappointed that Aquino only opened up after he was arrested by the Cebu City police last Sunday morning, or two weeks after the incident happened.
“Aquino is only one of the suspects and we want all of them to be arrested,” said Marie Shantylle.
For his part, Aquino denied he participated in the alleged mauling of Ducayag, 23, last April 12. He claimed he was just framed by chief security officer Mauricio Doblados and house detective Melvin Boyles.
“Ako’y nagpusas ato (I just placed the handcuffs on him),” said Aquino in a radio dyHP interview.
He said he was instructed by Doblados to do so and he just obliged.
“Sir, nganong giposasan man ko ninyo nakabayad na man ko?” said Ducayag, as quoted by Aquino.
He said it was only Doblados who pummeled Ducayag inside the mall’s security personnel office until the latter lost his consciousness. Doblados allegedly punched the victim thrice in the chest.
While Ducayag was on the floor, Doblados allegedly told other guards that the victim was just acting. Doblados then allegedly hit Ducayag in the chest with an electric cord five times.
Aquino said he let Ducayag smell a liniment thinking that the latter had only fainted.
The chief security officer later ordered Aquino to call the company nurse. Ducayag was rushed to Cebu City Medical Center, where he was declared dead on arrival.
Aquino’s claims contradicted to that of Doblados and Boyles. In their affidavits, they accused Aquino as the one who mauled Ducayag to death.
Metro Gaisano spokesperson Cerwin Eviota, in a phone interview, said during the separate investigation of the management and the police on the incident, Doblados and company said Ducayag died after he fell off from a chair.
They said the victim had a seizure. Eviota said it was not clear if Aquino had contradicted the account that time.
Aquino said he was asked by Doblados to stand by with their statement.
Days later, Doblados and Boyles executed their affidavits before the police and accused Aquino as the one who killed Ducayag.
Based on their testimonies, the police arrested the security camera operator.
Aquino was about to be charged before the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office when Ducayag’s family prevented the filing.
Afterwards, the police released Aquino from detention.
“What I know everybody sang the same tune. They lied,” said Eviota. “Who is telling the real story, we don’t know.”
He said they leave the case to the police and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 to ferret out the truth.
Aquino said he is willing to become a state witness and he is planning to place himself under the custody of the NBI for he started to fear for his life.
NBI 7 Supervising Agent Bernard dela Cruz said they will verify and study the information that Aquino holds.
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on May 02, 2013.
Source: Mario Alfie Ducayag
Muddled probe on death of ‘shoplifter’
Bong O. Wenceslao
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
RELATIVES of Mario Alfie Ducayag, the shopper who was killed inside Metro Gaisano-Colon, roamed the vicinity of the Cebu City Prosecutors Office yesterday. This following Monday’s failed attempt by the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) to file a case against the store’s security camera operator, Jeffrey Aquino, allegedly the one who mauled Ducayag, without their consent.
I don’t know why the investigation into Ducayag’s death has gotten down to this. The CCPO, not content with its initial failure to ferret out the truth regarding the incident, is making the public believe it is bent on muddling the probe further.
Still, it’s good that after that fuss at the prosecutor’s office, the CCPO has finally decided to let the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 do its thing. That, hopefully, should end the confusion.
To be fair, I understand the haste with which the CPPO wanted to lodge a complaint re: the Ducayag case. It had Aquino in its custody and it could not hold him for long without a case being filed against him. But why the CCPO continued its probe—and was thus forced to arrest Aquino--when NBI 7 had stepped in is an interesting question to answer.
The hasty filing of the case was not only what irked Ducayag’s relatives. What angered them more was the report that CCPO intended to use as evidence against Aquino the autopsy report of Dr. Nestor Sator, medico legal officer of the Regional Crime Laboratory of the Philippine National Police (PNP).
Remember Sator? His report claimed that Ducayag died of asphyxia as a result of pulmonary tuberculosis. While Sator subsequently said that he did not rule out foul play in Ducayag’s death, that didn’t surface in his report. Sator’s finding was demolished by a thorough autopsy conducted by NBI 7 medico legal officer Rene Cam, who said Ducayag had a dislocated neck bone, had a collapsed left lung and had bruises in his body.
Whether the CCPO has a hidden agenda on the matter or not, we do not know. Maybe it is just listening to signals from higher-ups. Note that when the NBI 7 autopsy report came out, Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 Regional Director Marcelo Garbo ordered a probe of his own, this time on the security agencies where the involved Metro guards belong.
As for the Metro Retail Group of Gaisano Metro, I find its recent statements through its spokesperson Cerwin Eviota interesting. When Bombo Radyo followed up the incident a few days after Ducayag’s death, the impression I got from its broadcast was that of a department store management eager to put a lid on the truth surrounding the incident.
Now, after the NBI 7 autopsy report exploded and got the attention of the entire Cebu media, Metro management is portraying itself as purveyor of truth. Even then, I consider as interesting the claim of the department store’s management that there was no closed circuit television (CCTV) camera inside the security personnel’s office where Ducayag died. NBI 7, though, already got footages of the CCTV cameras inside the store’s grocery section and outside the security personnel’s office.
I would have wanted to give the Metro Retail Group the benefit of the doubt regarding the honesty of its intention. But I would withhold issuing a verdict until its security personnel arrest again suspected shoplifters inside its stores. Have the lessons been learned?
(khanwens@yahoo.com)
Source: Wenceslao: Muddled probe on death of
'I Saw It All'
CCTV Operator says shopper was beaten up by mall security officer.
Source: Cebu Daily News | Cebu's Only Independent Newspaper
ang balita, partial pa...
at that time, WA GYUY RESIBO ANG SANDALS...
quick to judge? yes...
why? if the post was LOCKED every time nga naa'y update, nga di ta ka-comment, i seriously DON'T that would be my comment...but you should know that this is a FORUM...like news, it develops...
if this was the boston bombing, mo-ingon dayon (bisan ang amerikano) nga terrorist...WHAT IF that was just a gas leak?
too harsh? yes...i've always wanted death penalty brought back kay murag maka-pugong gyud ug "gamay" to ug krimen...i am for heavier punishment on lesser crimes...
what made that comment there? we're all fed by the facts based on media...kay bisan unsaon, media raman gyud ta padung kay WALA man ka pag-hitabo...diba?
so, para magka-pareho tag comment tanan, i-lock lang ang thread until we get another update from the news para di mo-GARA?
as any family member would do, i would instill innocence bisan wa pa ma-prove...it's an instinct...unless, abu sayaf/drug pusher/etc. nang namatay nimong pamilya nya KAHIBALO ka for a FACT nga mao gyud na iyang buhat...
akong papa kay naa'y ig-agaw nga pusher sa mindanao nakabalo nga maoy buhat nya naka-balita nga nadakpan na...ang reaction? "wa na. adto na gyud to matiguwang sa presohan."
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mao na importante kabalo ta sa ato rights as a citizen...
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