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Cebu City Legal Officer Rey Gealon (File photo)
+ April 23, 2021 THE Cebu City Government has withdrawn the legal assistance it vowed to provide to the family of Ritchie Nepomuceno, the woman who was gunned down after filing a complaint against 11 cops of the Sawang Calero Police Station for alleged rape and extortion.
In an interview, Cebu City Legal Officer Rey Gealon said the Cebu City Government chose not to intervene anymore after receiving reports from the local police that Nepomuceno was allegedly involved in illegal drugs.
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Just a few days after Nepomuceno was gunned down, officials of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) claimed that she was allegedly involved in a love triangle between her, a police officer, and a detained drug lord.
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SunStar File April 22, 2021 THE chief of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) has ordered an investigation on the escort of Staff Sergeant Celso Colita, after learning that the latter had ventured outside the Police Regional Office (PRO)-Central Visayas headquarters with a junior police officer hours before his accuser of wrongdoings was gunned down on Monday, April 19, 2021.
The logbook at the PRO-Central Visayas gate probed by reporters shows that Colita went out at 8:37 a.m. He was accompanied by Cpl. Christopher Lorete for a medical checkup.
The logbook also states that Colita and Lorete returned to the PRO-Central Visayas headquarters at 6 p.m., about 12 minutes after Ritchie Nepomuceno was shot to death by riding-in-tandem assailants.
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SunStar CHR 7 launches probe on Sawang s secret jail
NOT-SO-SECRET INSPECTION. Commission on Human Rights 7 chief investigator Leo Villarino (third from left) leads the inspection inside the Sawang Police Station to find the “secret jail,” where the 10 former members of the station’s drug enforcement unit “illegally detained” the persons suspected of engaging in drug trade. Two women in protective suit, who accompanied Villarino’s team, are the new complainants against the alleged erring officers. (ARNOLD BUSTAMANTE)
+ April 06, 2021 TWO more women accused 10 former anti-narcotics operatives of the Sawang Calero Police Station in Cebu City of detaining them inside a “secret jail” without filing charges against them.