MAYOR Eric C. Codilla said he will soon get to the bottom of the high profile crimes committed in Ormoc, believing that politics is behind the incidents to embarrass his administration. The mayor is optimistic about this following the arrest of a minor-aged carnapper during a shootout with members of Precicnt 1’s Investigation Detection Management Office last Feb. 1.
The 15-year-old suspect carrying the alias “Dodong Gamay” of Tugbong in neighboring Kananga town, is responsible for the series of carnapping incidents in which the stolen vehicles were abandoned and recovered in other places in and outside Ormoc, the farthest of which was in Alangalang town.
“Dodong” was shot on the leg during a firefight with the men of SPO1 Rudy Maglasang. During interrogation, he confessed that someone from Albuera town paid him P15,000 for every vehicle he carnaps only to be abandoned someplace else. He has been released recently from Ormoc District Hospital and is now in police custody.
Aside from the carnapping incidents, Mayor Codilla believes the series of robbery holdups that claimed two lives are also politically motivated. He finds it odd that the robbers would take the lives of their victims without taking any loot. The police are already conducting a manhunt for the suspects with orders not to kill them to know who their masterminds are.
In Aug. 17 last year, a bakery in Doña Feliza Mejia Subdivision wherein the perpetrators shot dead a salesgirl for P500 only. In Oct. 5 last year, culprits pounced on a Petron gas station in Cogon, killing the cashier but not taking any cash. by Jun Tarroza
(West Leyte Weekly Express issue of Feb. 27-Mar. 4, 2012)
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