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Eastern Samar’s most wanted person arrested in Talalora

By NINFA B. QUIRANTE (PIA 8)
January 6, 2007


Arrested most wanted person of Eastern Samar Edilberto Aquino (extreme left) was presented to media at the Samar Provincial Police Office on Friday (January 5) during a press conference.

CATBALOGAN, Samar  –  Eastern Samar’s most wanted criminal Edilberto Aquino y Brozas, 32, married and presently residing at Barangay Cabacungan, Talalora, Samar was arrested by a combined forces of Talalora and Samar Provincial police elements led by Provincial Criminal Investigator Joseph Pensotes on Janaury 4, 2006.

The police reported that Aquino was wanted in Eastern Samar and that a warrant of arrest CC Nr. 54-05-01 was pending for Robbery with Violence by Band with the Use of Firearms.

The Warrant of Arrest penned by Judge Elvie Lim of Regional trial Court Branch 4, Dolores, Eastern Samar said that Aquino has a recommended bail of P200,000.00.

In a media presentation, the suspect told the local media in Catbalogan that he had been detained in Dolores, Eastern Samar but was able to escape along with other inmates. He then married someone from Cabacungan, Talalora, Samar and had stayed in that barangay where he was arrested.

SPO3 Samuel Rosales of the Samar Provincial Police Office told PIA that his men were alerted by a civilian in Talalora tipping the presence of Aquino; Samar PPO then coordinated with other Municipal Police Stations in Eastern Samar for a possible criminal record of the suspect. The efforts yielded a faxed warrant of arrest.

Said suspect will soon be turned over to the Eastern Samar Police jurisdiction, Rosales said.

“We do not want to be accused of sweeping somebody’s backyard,” Rosales informed.

His arrest has given Samar Police Director Asdali Idjah Abah another accomplishment following his lucky streak of disbanding a pirate-team that has been operating in the Samar-Masbate-Bicol area. Abah and his men though have yet to unravel a sticky situation when the pirates arrested implicated some barangay officials in Tarangnan town who were said to be the buyers of the stolen motor engines.