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By Francis Allan L. Angelo
ROUND up the “callboys.”
This was the latest order of Chief Supt. Isagani Cuevas, Police Regional Office (PRO-6) director, to the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) as they try to crack the case of a foundation executive who was found dead inside his hotel room Tuesday morning.
Cuevas said they suspect that the culprits in the death of Epi Ramos of Cabatuan, Iloilo might be callboys or male sex workers who either work in nightspots or as freelancers.
Ramos, a native of Cabatuan, Iloilo, succumbed to 21 stab wounds in his body, according to the autopsy report of the PNP Crime Laboratory. He was found dead inside room 44 of Eon Centennial Plaza Hotel Tuesday morning.
Ramos was the chief executive officer of the Field Epidemiology Training Program Alumni Foundation Inc., a partner organization of the Department of Health.
The victim checked in the hotel January 24 for a seminar on diseases identification mounted by their foundation in behalf of the DOH.
Cuevas said a syndicate preying on homosexuals is behind Ramos’ death.
The group takes advantage of their victims’ sexual preference in order to rob and kill them, Cuevas added.
Cuevas ordered the Iloilo City Police Office to resolve the case immediately even as he advised hotels to implement stricter security measures.
ICPO officer-in-charge Eugenio Espejo said they will try to trace callboys in the city.
The suspects in Ramos’ death are nowhere to be found, according to the Iloilo City police.
Chief Insp. Conrado Carganillo, Iloilo City proper police station chief, said the two culprits cannot be found in their respective addresses.
Carganillo said they were able to establish the identities of the suspects through the testimonies of witnesses who recently surfaced.
The police also came up with a facial sketch of one of the suspects based on the witnesses’ statements.
Police investigation said Ramos and the suspects went inside Room 404 past 8pm Monday.
If there is one glitch in the investigation of the case, it’s the scant information police gathered from security guard Jeffrey Lagayan who was on duty at the hotel Monday evening to Tuesday morning.
Carganillo said they did not get enough details from Lagayan as regards the suspects’ profiles because there was no record of their movement in the hotel.
Lagayan earlier said he can only recognize the suspects, who went out of the hotel past 1am Tuesday, through their body build.
The security guard said he failed to see the faces of the culprits when they went out of the hotel.
Scene of the crime operatives recovered latent fingerprints inside the room which Carganillo said could help in solving the incident.
Robbery remains the motive for Ramos’ death after police found out that the P100,000 registration fee of the seminar participants was missing from his room.
Also missing were the victim’s two laptop computers, two cellphones and his wallet containing undetermined amount of cash.
By Francis Allan L. Angelo
THE illegal drugs syndicates are also feeling the pinch of the global economic crisis, according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-6).
Supt. Roybel Sanchez, PDEA-6 regional director, said shabu sold on the streets are laced with chemicals such as tawas or alum and naphthalene after raw materials for the “poor man’s cocaine” increased.
Naphthalene is the main ingredient of insect repellants.
Sanchez said the increase in prices of shabu chemicals could be attributed to the global financial crisis and intensified campaign against illegal drugs.
The PDEA chief warned drug users that shabu sold nowadays are more dangerous because of tawas and naphthalene.
Based on their monitoring reports, Sanchez said shabu is sold at P12, 000 to P15, 000 per gram.
Drug users have now shifted to Ecstacy and cocaine which are relatively cheaper than shabu.
Sanchez said they are also monitoring the entry of prohibited substances in Jaro, Iloilo City which will celebrate its annual fiesta Monday.
The PDEA chief said several drug personalities were spotted in Jaro district.
REWARD
The Iloilo provincial Capitol will allocate P1 million in support of the “all-out-war” against the illegal drug trade.
Governor Niel D. Tupas Sr. yesterday directed all chiefs of police in 42 municipalities and one component city to “wipe out” illegal drugs in the province, which he described as the biggest menace to society.
“Illegal drugs pose the biggest threat to our people,” Tupas told a command conference held at the Iloilo Provincial Police Office (IPPO) at Camp Sumagaysay, Sta. Barbara.
“We have to throw everything we’ve got at these drug syndicates,” he added.
Tupas said he will accept no excuses for failure because the perennial problem of inadequate resources will now be addressed by the Iloilo provincial government.
The P1-million fund will be utilized for a system of rewards, training and transportation needs of the PNP working in tandem with the PDEA, provincial administrator Manuel “Boy” Mejorada said.
Rep. Niel “Jun-Jun” Tupas Jr. (5th district, Iloilo) vowed to secure more budgetary funding for the operations of the PDEA and the Dangerous Drugs Board in the 2010 budget.
Describing the present appropriations for PDEA and DDB as “puny”, the younger Tupas said the government is only showing that it is not serious about defeating the drug problem in the country.
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This is not the first time that Panay News did this to me.
Last year HUBLAS, their Ilonggo paper also used my two photos.
Now, when I sent them email, demanding for compensation for the images they used, they just simply ignored it. Until now the manangement has not responded to my email. Only the writer has contacted me, which I told him to ask his boss to contact me.
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Enrico Dee
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