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May
7
Drag racers invading Muntinlupa?
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From inquirer.net:
By Nathaniel Melican
Is the National Road in Putatan, Muntinlupa City, becoming the next hot “racetrack” for drag racers?
The Muntinlupa police certainly hopes not, although they found a group of drag racers on the thoroughfare pushing their motorcycles to the limit in the wee hours of Friday morning.
Superintendent Porfirio Calagan, city police officer-in-charge, said in a phone interview that members of the Police Community Precinct (PCP) 4 in Putatan had told the six racers, who were from Muntinlupa and other neighboring cities, to disperse.
“However, after the police left, the race went on,” he added.
“The racers, aged between 18 and 25 years, did not wear any form of crash protection, not even helmets. And the motorcycles they used were ordinary ones not fit for racing,” Calagan said.
According to him, it was the first time policemen on Muntinlupa’s streets spotted people involved in drag racing, a dangerous sport that should not be tolerated as it goes against national laws and local ordinances.
“Just their failure to wear helmets is punishable under Muntinlupa ordinances. And more importantly, by drag racing, they put their and the public’s safety at grave risk,” he said.
Calagan added that he had ordered policemen in the area to continue to monitor the National Road in case the drag racers come back.
“Police officers from the community precinct will set up a post on the road at night until the morning to make sure the drag racers will not come back and race again,” he said. “We will try to stop them but if they don’t, we will be forced to arrest them.”
Calagan told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that he had ordered the conduct of a deeper investigation to find out whether the group was part of a bigger organization of drag racers.
“The problem is they might be really just ‘visiting’ Muntinlupa, maybe they just chose areas where they think they can get away with racing,” he said.
Caalagan said he would also seek the help of the city government, specifically the Public Order and Safety Office, to monitor the area just in case the racers come back.
May
2
From gmanetwork.com:
A passenger train was derailed in Muntinlupa City shortly before noon Tuesday, with the Philippine National Railways suspecting the summer heat may be have caused the incident.
PNR spokesman Paul de Quiros said no one was initially reported injured, adding teams had been sent to the site to clear the area.
“Initially, ‘yung sabi na dahil sa sobrang init may rail expansion (Initial reports indicated the rails expanded because of the summer heat),” De Quiros said in an interview on dzBB radio.
He cited initial reports indicating the incident occurred at about 11 a.m. between the Sucat and Alabang areas in Muntinlupa City.
Asked if any of the train’s passengers were hurt, he said there were none.
He added some of the train passengers eventually took other forms of public transportation.
De Quiros said it was lucky the train operator saw something wrong with a portion of the railroad tracks and decided to slow down.
“Naramdaman ng driver kaya nag-slow down siya. Na-derail nang kaunti,” he said.
Since April, Metro Manila had been experiencing high temperatures, which reached as high as 36.7 degrees in Manila last Sunday.
The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said it is possible temperatures may soar even higher this month. — LBG, GMA News
Apr
27
2 killed by co-workers in Muntinlupa
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From newsinfo.inquirer.net:
MANILA, Philippines—Two people were killed after their co-workers shot them for a still unknown reason inside their workplace in Muntinlupa City Thursday afternoon, a police spokesman said.
Superintendent Jenny Tecson of the Southern Police District identified the victims as Lorie Padilla, 42, and Rudy Debaubin, 25, both stay-in residents of Expedition Construction Corp. located along East Service Road in Barangay (village) Cupang, Muntinlupa City.
Tecson said Padilla and Debaubin were shot inside their workplace by the suspects, who were identified only by their aliases Uwak and Iboy Cuevas, who were also stay-in garbage helpers of the said company, at around 5:30 p.m. No other details were given.
The victims were immediately taken to the Ospital ng Muntinlupa for medical treatment. Padilla was, however, declared dead on arrival by their attending physician, Dra. Jane Aloc, the spokesperson said.—Jamie Marie Elona
Apr
25
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Apr
21
Looks like it’s not yet over for “Alabang Boys”; Automatic review of case made valid
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From manilatimes.net:
THE Office of the President has the authority to automatically review all decisions and resolutions involving the dismissal of illegal drug cases, including the controversial Alabang Boys controversy.
This after the Court of Appeals (CA) declared as valid and legal the automatic review that was undertaken by the Office of the President over the 2009 resolution of the Department of Justice on the so-called “Alabang boys” who were eventually absolved of illegal drug charges due to a technicality.
In a 12-page decision penned by Associate Justice Noel Tijam, the CA’s Eighth Division dismissed the petition for certiorari filed by suspect Richard Brodett for being moot and academic.
The CA ruling said the President’s action was legal as it was made “by virtue of Administrative Order Nos. 252 and 253, which were validly issued by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo pursuant to Section 17, Article VII of the 1987 Constitution.”
Associate Justices Romeo Barza and Edwin Sorongon both concurred with Tijam’s ruling.
The case caught public attention after government prosecutors were accused of bribery charges, and led to several congressional hearings.
Then President Arroyo directly ordered an automatic review of the case after a fact-finding probe was made.
Arroyo subsequently overturned the ruling that led to the filing of the cases in court against the three suspects—Brodett, Jorge Joseph and Richard Tecson.
While the case is pending before the court, Brodett sought redress before the appeals court alleging that the Office of the President has no power to review a case that has been already dismissed by the DOJ.
However, in its decision, the CA said that “our Constitution expressly granted the President the control power over the executive department.”
The CA decision said, “As the chief executive, the president represents the government as a whole and sees to it that all laws are enforced by the officials and employees of his department.
“Hence, AO Nos. 252 and 253 were validly issued by President Arroyo to determine the truthfulness of the alleged bribery committed by her subordinates and to ensure that the laws they sought to implement were faithfully executed,” it added.
Guerrero found serious lapses by the arresting agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in the custody of the illegal drugs seized from the accused.
According to Guerrero, “the link in the custody of the drug evidence” as required by Section 21 of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, “was broken.”
The three young men were arrested in a buy-bust operation by the PDEA in the posh Ayala Alabang Village in Muntinlupa City on Sept. 19, 2008 for allegedly selling 60 pieces of Ecstacy tablets worth P750 each to an agent.
Another “Alabang boys” member—Tecson—is still behind bars for a drug case that is yet to be resolved by a Quezon City court.
