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GENERAL SANTOS CITY: Criminal Investigation and
Detection Group (CIDG) operatives arrested early dawn Monday,
Central Mindanao’s second most notorious robbery gang leader in
Barangay Kauran, Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province.
The suspect, Jimmy Porras, 48,
the alleged second man of the “Gumban robbery group,” was
arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by Judge Oscar
Dinopol of the South Cotabato Regional Trial Court due to three
counts of robbery with violence against persons and murder.
The arrest came a few days after
the group’s leader, Jarid Gumban alias Gary was arrested in a
joint operation conducted by elements of the CIDG and the Cavite
Police Force in Bacoor, Cavite.
Senior Supt. Generoso Bonifacio,
CIDG director for Central Mindanao, said next to Gumban who has a
P350,000 reward on his head due to nine cases of robbery in hand, is
Poras, who also has a P300,000 bounty on his head. Both suspects
were considered South Cotabato’s most wanted criminals.
“Gumban was sentenced by Judge
Eddie Rojas of the Regional Trial Court Branch 39 of 11th Judicial
Region for imprisonment of 8 to 10 years after he was found guilty
of the robbery charges filed against him but he has been so elusive
in the past years,” Bonifacio said.
Earlier, in an exclusive coverage
by The Manila Times, CIDG agents led by Supt. Hendry Dazo stormed
the residence of prominent businessman Pedro Amadeo in Pulatana,
Barangay Malandag, Sarangani Province after receiving information
that the suspect has sought the refuge of the said businessman.
“Our informants have also
confirmed that the suspect is the elder brother of Jomarie Poras,
live-in partner of Amadeo’s daughter, An-an and stand-in
manager/caretaker of the Amadeo mango plantation,” Dazo said.
During the first raid that was
conducted at around 10 p.m., authorities failed to apprehend the
suspect but instead seized two caliber .45 pistols from Jomarie and
an army sergeant in the house.
During investigation, police
recovered the suspect’s cellular phone number, latest text
messages and time of calls in one of the confiscated cellular
phones.
At early dawn of the following
day, CIDG operatives traveled more or less 200 kilometers from
Sarangani to Maguindanao Province where the suspect has been caught,
flatfooted.
--Isagani P. Palma
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