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                    [Title] => ‘Inmates mastermind kidnappings from Bilibid’
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Inmates serving time at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) continue their illegal activities through mobile phones, a police official said yesterday.

                    [DatePublished] => 2015-12-27 09:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1165072
                    [AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr.
                    [SectionName] => Metro
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                    [ArticleID] => 211446
                    [Title] => KFR gangs down to 5 from 20, says Ebdane
                    [Summary] => As of last May, there were only five "active, primary" kidnap-for-ransom (KFR) groups in the target list of the Philippine National Police, down from 20 in July 2002, PNP chief Director General Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. said yesterday.


Ebdane reported this during a multisectoral forum on peace and order organized by the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Inc. in Binondo, Manila.


Ebdane identified the five KFR groups as the Hermano/Pementera, Fernandez, Bucala, Pentagon and Abu Suffia groups.


                    [DatePublished] => 2003-06-26 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
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                    [ArticleID] => 177856
                    [Title] => Police eye Kuratong Baleleng, Bucala gangs in kidnapping of Ledesma kids
                    [Summary] => Police are eyeing at least two kidnap groups in the Sept. 13 abduction in San Juan of two young children of Negros Occidental Rep. Julio Ledesma IV.


Citing the military-precision with which the kidnapping was carried out on a busy street San Juan, the investigators expressed belief that the perpetrators could possibly be communist guerrillas or former soldiers and policemen.


                    [DatePublished] => 2002-09-29 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1805358
                    [AuthorName] => Non Alquitran
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                    [ArticleID] => 169999
                    [Title] => Cops hot on the trail of kidnap gang head
                    [Summary] => He used to be under the care of "police handlers" as he espied on communist rebels. Now the police, in their renewed campaign against kidnappings, are hot on his trail.


The target of the manhunt is Amado Bucala, alleged leader of a notorious kidnap-for-ransom syndicate which, police records show, raked in P121.6 million in ransom from mostly Chinese-Filipino victims before 1999, and P83 million more in early 1999.


                    [DatePublished] => 2002-07-29 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1096615
                    [AuthorName] =>  Christina Mendez
                    [SectionName] => Nation
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                    [ArticleID] => 169860
                    [Title] => P15-M sought for girl, trader
                    [Summary] => In utter defiance of President Arroyo’s total war against kidnapping for ransom, kidnappers struck anew and separately abducted a young girl and a businessman over the past three days.


Both victims have not been identified as the two cases were categorized by the Police Anti-Crime Emergency Response (PACER) unit as "highly classified."


Police have tried to keep the two incidents under wraps, but sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said the girl, a daughter of a wealthy businessman, was seized on Wednesday somewhere in southern Metro Manila.


                    [DatePublished] => 2002-07-28 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1805318
                    [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude
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                    [ArticleID] => 89598
                    [Title] => Caloocan court sends 12 men to death row for kidnapping
                    [Summary] => Twelve members of the so-called "P50-million Gang," a notorious kidnap-for-ransom group, were sentenced to death yesterday for the abduction of a businessman almost three years ago.


A 13th member of the group, the wife of one of the convicts, was meted a life sentence by Caloocan Regional Trial Court Judge Ba-yani Rivera.


                    [DatePublished] => 2001-01-30 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1510110
                    [AuthorName] => Matthew Estabillo
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‘Inmates mastermind kidnappings from Bilibid’

By Bebot Sison Jr. | December 27, 2015 - 9:00am

Inmates serving time at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) continue their illegal activities through mobile phones, a police official...

Metro

KFR gangs down to 5 from 20, says Ebdane

June 26, 2003 - 12:00am

As of last May, there were only five "active, primary" kidnap-for-ransom (KFR) groups in the target list of the Philippine National Police, down from 20 in July 2002, PNP chief Director General Hermogenes...

Nation

Police eye Kuratong Baleleng, Bucala gangs in kidnapping of Ledesma kids

By Non Alquitran | September 29, 2002 - 12:00am

Police are eyeing at least two kidnap groups in the Sept. 13 abduction in San Juan of two young children of Negros Occidental Rep. Julio Ledesma IV. Citing the military-precision with which the kidnapping was carried...

Headlines

Cops hot on the trail of kidnap gang head

By Christina Mendez | July 29, 2002 - 12:00am

He used to be under the care of "police handlers" as he espied on communist rebels. Now the police, in their renewed campaign against kidnappings, are hot on his trail. The target of the manhunt is Amado...

Nation

P15-M sought for girl, trader

By Jaime Laude | July 28, 2002 - 12:00am

In utter defiance of President Arroyo’s total war against kidnapping for ransom, kidnappers struck anew and separately abducted a young girl and a businessman over the past three days. Both victims have not...

Headlines

Caloocan court sends 12 men to death row for kidnapping

By Matthew Estabillo | January 30, 2001 - 12:00am

Twelve members of the so-called "P50-million Gang," a notorious kidnap-for-ransom group, were sentenced to death yesterday for the abduction of a businessman almost three years ago. A 13th member of the...

Headlines