 links: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/583795/pnp-confident-of-arresting-other-fugitives PNP confident of arresting other fugitivesBy Marlon RamosPhilippine Daily Inquirer 
MANILA, Philippines—One down, four to go.
The Philippine National Police on Sunday expressed confidence that the remaining four of the “Big 5” high-profile fugitives would soon end up behind bars following last week’s arrest of real estate magnate Delfin Lee.
“The PNP is employing maximum efforts to locate the four other fugitives. The arrest of Delfin Lee is a positive development (toward that goal),” said Senior Supt. Wilben Mayor, spokesman of PNP Director General Alan Purisima.
“Although it may take some time, definitely the long arms of the law would catch up with them. That’s the principle we apply in running after fugitives,” he told the Inquirer over the phone.
Lee, tagged as the architect of a P7-billion housing scam, was arrested by members of Task Force Tugis at the lobby of Hyatt Regency Hotel and Casino in Ermita, Manila, on March 6, nearly two years after a Pampanga court ordered his arrest for syndicated estafa.
Mayor said the task force, which Purisima created in August 2013 to hunt down prominent wanted personalities, had intensified its operations to find the four high-profile fugitives and “deliver justice to their victims.”
He urged the four to turn themselves in and help the PNP save public funds in locating them.
Lee’s lawyers said they would challenge the legality of their client’s arrest as they maintained that the Court of Appeals had ruled that the judge who issued the arrest warrant against the owner and founder of Globe Asiatique Realty Holdings Corp. had committed grave abuse of discretion.
Lawyer Willy Rivera said he would file Monday a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the appellate court seeking Lee’s immediate release from the detention cell of the National Bureau of Investigation in San Fernando City, Pampanga.
Rivera questioned the validity of the commitment order issued by Executive Judge Edgar Chua of the Pampanga Regional Trial Court, saying the judge ordered Lee’s detention despite questions about the legality of his client’s arrest.
“We are seeking this relief to protect our client from these illegal moves and proceedings, including his scheduled arraignment (today),” Rivera said in a statement.
Rivera claimed that the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) issued a certification on Nov. 20, 2013, removing Lee’s name from its wanted list.
He said the certification was signed by a certain Supt. Benjamin Silo Jr., then acting chief of the CIDG’s Investigation Division, and Chief Insp. Honor de Loza, chief of the CIDG’s Warrant of Arrest Information System Section.
“[E]ven … Purisima has acknowledged and recognized the decision of the CA Special 15th Division in a letter to (my) law office dated Jan. 8, 2014,” Rivera said.
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35 most wanted criminals arrested in less than a week, says PNPBy Julliane Love De JesusINQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines—In less than a week, 35 of the country’s most wanted criminals have been arrested.
In its bid to eradicate most wanted persons, the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Chief Superintendent Benjamin Magalong, newly-minted CIDG chief, said they consider their recent accomplishment as an “overwhelming outcome” of the CIDG’s campaign against MWPs.
Among the 35, Magalong cited seven significant operations in hunting down notorious criminals nationwide.
Alleged rapist Armando Gavino Jr., of Barangay (village) Freeport Zone in Olongapo City, charged with three counts of rape have been caught by the regional CIDG team on Thursday.
On Wednesday, four lawless individuals were caught separately by CIDG tracker teams.
In Central Mindanao, CIDG tracker teams arrested on Wednesday Ogie Piang Kimbaw for murder.
Kimbaw was among the prisoners who bolted Maguindanao provincial jail after destroying their lock-up cell in 2012.
Davao del Sur policemen successfully accosted the fourth most wanted person in the entire province, Fidel Centillas, at Panabo City for charges of rape and acts of lasciviousness also on Wednesday morning.
In Luzon and Visayas, fifth most wanted person in Zambales and alleged murderer Bruno Canoza and the ninth most wanted person in Masbate province Eugenio Magbanua were arrested in the same day.
Last Sunday, Abu Sayyaf Group member Adulgappar Imambakal, who has 11 standing warrants of arrest for frustrated murder and 13 for murder, was apprehended by West Mindanao PNP Special Action Forces.
In a press conference last January, Magalong said crimes unsolved over a certain period of time, or cold cases, in the local police stations and district headquarters are later being turned over to the CIDG.
As of 2014, the former Cordillera Administrative Region police director said they are handling about 3,000 cases from all police stations nationwide.
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PNP confident of arresting other fugitives
