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                    [ArticleID] => 609659
                    [Title] => 2 'guns-for-hire' charged for poll executive's slay
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The provincial prosecutor’s office has filed murder charges against two of the nine suspects in the 2006 killing of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) municipal registrar here.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097171 [AuthorName] => Jun Elias [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360504 [Title] => La Union Poll Exec’s Killing: Lawmaker, 8 others not yet off the hook [Summary] => SAN FERNANDO, La Union — La Union Rep. Tomas Dumpit Sr. and eight others who were implicated in the Jan. 12 killing of the election registrar of Bauang town are not yet off the hook although the acting provincial prosecutor has dismissed the murder complaint against them.

Lawyer Leonard de Vera, legal counsel of Ma. Libertine Asperin, widow of slain election registrar Felimon Asperin Jr., told The STAR in a phone interview that he is now preparing a petition for review with the office of Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359678 [Title] => Poll Registrar’s Slay: Fiscal junks murder charges vs La Union lawmaker, 8 others [Summary] => SAN FERNANDO, La Union — Citing lack of probable cause, the acting provincial prosecutor has dismissed the murder complaint against La Union Rep. Tomas Dumpit Sr. and eight others in connection with the Jan. 12 killing of Bauang election registrar Felimon Asperin Jr.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097171 [AuthorName] => Jun Elias [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 358761 [Title] => Staff ng solon, todas sa security aide [Summary] => CAMP CRAME –Kamatayan sa mismong ika-30 taong kaarawan ang kinahinatnan ng isang staff ng isang Kongresista nang pagbabarilin ng isa sa mga security aide ng opisyal matapos ang mainitang pagtatalo sa Naguilian, La Union kamakalawa. [DatePublished] => 2006-09-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Probinsiya [SectionUrl] => probinsiya [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 335857 [Title] => Lawmaker wants gun licenses restored [Summary] => La Union Rep. Tomas Dumpit has asked the Philippine National Police (PNP) to reconsider its decision revoking his firearm licenses after he, together with other suspects, was tagged in the Jan. 12 gunslaying of the election supervisor of Bauang, La Union.

PNP chief Director General Arturo Lomibao said Dumpit’s appeal is now being reviewed.

Earlier, the PNP Civil Security Group (CSG) revoked the lawmaker’s firearm licenses and permits to carry guns outside his residence.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 335201 [Title] => La Union lawmaker’s gun permits revoked [Summary] => The Philippine National Police-Civil Security Group has ordered La Union Rep. Tomas Dumpit Sr. to surrender his licensed firearms after murder charges were recently filed against him, together with his son and several others, in connection with the gunslaying of the election supervisor of Bauang, La Union last Jan. 12.

The CSG ordered Dumpit to surrender his high-powered firearms to Camp Crame, and also revoked the gun licenses issued to his son, resigned Army Lt. Col. Tomas "Butch" Dumpit Jr., Caba Vice Mayor Clyde Crispino, SPO1 Eduardo Banay Jr., and Armen Mato.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 332650 [Title] => Murder case vs La Union lawmaker transferred to DOJ [Summary] => BAUANG, La Union — The murder case against La Union second district Rep. Tomas Dumpit Sr., together with eight others, including the lawmaker’s son, for the Jan. 12 killing of Bauang election registrar Felimon Asperin Jr., has been transferred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) as requested by Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales.

In a April 10 letter, Gonzales ordered local prosecutors handling the case to suspend the preliminary investigation and immediately transmit all the records to the DOJ.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097171 [AuthorName] => Jun Elias [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 330061 [Title] => ‘Murder raps a declaration of war against our family’ [Summary] => SAN FERNANDO, La Union — A daughter of second district Rep. Tomas Dumpit scored the murder charges filed against her father and two siblings in connection with the killing of the election supervisor of Bauang town, saying they constitute a "declaration of war (against) our family."

Thelma Dumpit Murillo, a media practitioner, said that although they welcome the case "to clear our name," it is "a grand desire to demolish my father’s name."
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097171 [AuthorName] => Jun Elias [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 329873 [Title] => La Union lawmaker, 8 others charged in poll exec’s murder [Summary] => BAUANG, La Union — The task force investigating the murder of this town’s election supervisor last Jan. 12 filed yesterday murder charges against second district Rep. Tomas Dumpit Sr. and eight others, including his son and the vice mayor of Caba town.

Superintendent Pedro Ubaldo, Bauang police chief, represented the task force in filing the case against Dumpit, his son Butch, a former military officer; Caba Vice Mayor Clyde Crispino and six other suspects with the provincial prosecutor’s office here.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097171 [AuthorName] => Jun Elias [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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