Drug gang members charged for murder attempt
SUBIC, ZAMBALES—The National Bureau of Investigation filed murder and frustrated murder charges against two suspected members of a drug syndicate operating in Subic, Zambales, for the attempted killing of a village councilor in 2004.
Joel Curameng, NBI-Olongapo City chief, also filed similar charges against six suspected hired killers who were involved in the murder attempt on Orlando Timbol, village chair of Calapacuan.
Two of the hired guns were arrested for alleged involvement in separate murder cases and are now detained at the Olongapo City jail.
Charged were Julito Reyes, Rosito Calledo, Ronnie Miol, Gerald Donque, Bani Gapul, Rico Nebreda Bernaldez and two unidentified suspects.
The NBI said Reyes, the suspected mastermind, drew up an elaborate plot. He ordered three hit men, who were not known to each other, to do the job in one place at the same time, to ensure that the target was killed.
Assassination attempt
Timbol, who was hit in the right shoulder and left leg, escaped on his motorcycle and survived. However, two teenagers—Jean Romamban, 16, and Maron Diaz, 13—were hit by stray bullets and died.
Timbol said that as a councilor in his village, he once called several suspected illegal drug pushers to a meeting and warned them to stop their trade.
He suspected that the plot to kill him was hatched after that meeting.
He identified Gapul as one of those who attacked him.
Three months after, a witness, Alejandro Balida, identified five more possible suspects whom he reportedly saw at the crime scene before the shooting.
“Magkakatropa po kami, kaya alam ko ang mga ginagawa nila (I know them and I know about their activities),” Balida told the NBI in a statement.
Hiring three gunmen only proved a liability for Reyes when one confessed to his role in the killing and identified his accomplices two years after the crime.
Murder case
The NBI said Bernaldez, who was arrested because of a separate murder case, admitted to being one of those who shot Timbol. He pointed to Reyes, also known as “Tisoy,” as the one who offered him P60,000 to kill the village official.
Bernaldez said he met Reyes in the house of Calledo a week before the attack on Oct. 5, 2004. He said Reyes gave him a P30,000 down payment during that meeting.
He also identified Miol as one of the three men who actually shot Timbol.
Bernaldez said he came to know Miol after a man on a motorcycle took them both to Barangay San Isidro, also in Subic, immediately after the shooting. He said he did not know the third gunman.
Almost two years after the attack, Bernaldez told the NBI that Miol had been detained at the Olongapo jail for another murder case.
Bernaldez said Reyes had wanted Timbol killed because the latter was considered an “obstacle” to Reyes’ illegal drug trade
By Ansbert Joaquin - Inquirer
Joel Curameng, NBI-Olongapo City chief, also filed similar charges against six suspected hired killers who were involved in the murder attempt on Orlando Timbol, village chair of Calapacuan.
Two of the hired guns were arrested for alleged involvement in separate murder cases and are now detained at the Olongapo City jail.
Charged were Julito Reyes, Rosito Calledo, Ronnie Miol, Gerald Donque, Bani Gapul, Rico Nebreda Bernaldez and two unidentified suspects.
The NBI said Reyes, the suspected mastermind, drew up an elaborate plot. He ordered three hit men, who were not known to each other, to do the job in one place at the same time, to ensure that the target was killed.
Assassination attempt
Timbol, who was hit in the right shoulder and left leg, escaped on his motorcycle and survived. However, two teenagers—Jean Romamban, 16, and Maron Diaz, 13—were hit by stray bullets and died.
Timbol said that as a councilor in his village, he once called several suspected illegal drug pushers to a meeting and warned them to stop their trade.
He suspected that the plot to kill him was hatched after that meeting.
He identified Gapul as one of those who attacked him.
Three months after, a witness, Alejandro Balida, identified five more possible suspects whom he reportedly saw at the crime scene before the shooting.
“Magkakatropa po kami, kaya alam ko ang mga ginagawa nila (I know them and I know about their activities),” Balida told the NBI in a statement.
Hiring three gunmen only proved a liability for Reyes when one confessed to his role in the killing and identified his accomplices two years after the crime.
Murder case
The NBI said Bernaldez, who was arrested because of a separate murder case, admitted to being one of those who shot Timbol. He pointed to Reyes, also known as “Tisoy,” as the one who offered him P60,000 to kill the village official.
Bernaldez said he met Reyes in the house of Calledo a week before the attack on Oct. 5, 2004. He said Reyes gave him a P30,000 down payment during that meeting.
He also identified Miol as one of the three men who actually shot Timbol.
Bernaldez said he came to know Miol after a man on a motorcycle took them both to Barangay San Isidro, also in Subic, immediately after the shooting. He said he did not know the third gunman.
Almost two years after the attack, Bernaldez told the NBI that Miol had been detained at the Olongapo jail for another murder case.
Bernaldez said Reyes had wanted Timbol killed because the latter was considered an “obstacle” to Reyes’ illegal drug trade
By Ansbert Joaquin - Inquirer
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