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.
