Kerwin Espinosa. | File photograph
TACLOBAN CITY — Administrative fees are being ready towards the seven cops thought-about “individuals of curiosity” within the April 10 capturing of confessed drug lord and mayoral candidate Rolan “Kerwin” Espinosa.
Colonel Dionisio Apas Jr., Leyte provincial police director, stated he anticipated the executive fees to be resolved earlier than the felony instances.
“Throughout our command convention, it was emphasised that administrative fees should even be filed towards them, and if discovered responsible, they need to be dismissed from service,” he stated in an interview.
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“We anticipate that after the executive proceedings are in movement, they may transfer quicker than the felony complaints,” he added.
The Leyte police filed on April 14 fees of unlawful possession of firearms and violation of the Fee on Elections gun ban towards the seven cops earlier than the Leyte Provincial Prosecutor’s Workplace.
This got here after 9 of the 14 firearms surrendered by the arrested cops, who had been nearly 200 meters away from the crime scene when the capturing occurred, had been discovered unregistered and lacked correct documentation.
However paraffin checks carried out on the seven cops confirmed no traces of gunpowder on their fingers.
Homicide grievance
Apas burdened that the instances they filed towards the respondents had been simply “preliminary” as investigators continued to pursue leads for the doable submitting of annoyed homicide complaints towards the seven cops.
These cops had been inside a non-public compound in Barangay Tinag-an, Albuera city, Leyte to reportedly serve an arrest warrant towards a sure particular person on April 10–the identical day Espinosa was shot and wounded.
It was nonetheless unclear if the seven cops, who had been underneath restrictive custody on the Philippine Nationwide Police-Japanese Visayas regional headquarters in Palo city, Leyte, had a hand within the capturing of Espinosa.
Apas stated the investigators had been cautious in getting ready the instances in order that the prosecutors or judges wouldn’t dismiss them for lack of proof.
“There have to be certainty of conviction,” he stated, stressing that full and credible proof ought to again any case.
Apas referred to as on the Espinosa camp to cooperate by presenting any witnesses who may assist show that the seven cops had one thing to do with the capturing, which additionally injured the sister of the mayoral candidate and working mate, Mariel Espinosa Marinay, and a daughter of one in all their candidates for councilor.
“If they’ve witnesses, they need to ship them to us so we are able to resolve this incident early,” he stated.
Apas stated that they had but to find out the motive behind the try on Espinosa’s life.
“We’re wanting into a number of doable motives. As of now, we can’t set up or verify a specific motive,” he stated.
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