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                    [ArticleID] => 18004
                    [Title] => Broadcasters Cortez, Solon plead not guilty to libel raps
                    [Summary] => 
            
                    [DatePublished] => 2007-10-02 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Cebu News
                    [SectionUrl] => cebu-news
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                    [ArticleID] => 375331
                    [Title] => This time for libel: 2 blocktimers arrested again
                    [Summary] => Barely three months after they were arrested by NBI agents on charges of alleged extortion, two radio blocktimers were arrested again yesterday, also by NBI agents, this time for alleged libel.
                    [DatePublished] => 2006-12-16 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1096948
                    [AuthorName] =>  Fred Languido
                    [SectionName] => Cebu News
                    [SectionUrl] => cebu-news
                    [URL] => 
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                (
                    [ArticleID] => 372393
                    [Title] => 2 radio blocktimers indicted for libel
                    [Summary] => 

The two controversial radio blocktimers who were earlier arrested for alleged extortion have been indicted by the Regional State Prosecutor's Office for libel.


State Prosecutor Graeme June Elimido, who was designated as acting provincial prosecutor for the purpose of conducting the preliminary investigation of the case against Reynante "Rey" Cortez and Lito "Bingbong" Solon, found probable cause to hold the two blocktimers for trial for the crime of libel.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 361563 [Title] => Arrested radiomen urge Ombudsman to probe Emphasis [Summary] => The two radio blocktimers who were earlier arrested in an entrapment operation for alleged extortion are getting back at Philippine Reclamation Authority director Elberto Emphasis by asking the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas to conduct a lifestyle check against him.

During a press conference yesterday, Reynaldo "Rey" Cortez and Lito "Bingbong" Solon are also contemplating to file a bribery case against Emphasis.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 361564 [Title] => 2 blocktimers 'sue' Emphasis [Summary] => The two radio blocktimers who were earlier arrested in an entrapment operation for alleged extortion are getting back at Philippine Reclamation Authority director Elberto Emphasis by asking the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas to conduct a lifestyle check against him.

During a press conference yesterday, Reynaldo "Rey" Cortez and Lito "Bingbong" Solon are also contemplating to file a bribery case against Emphasis.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 361391 [Title] => City prosecutor explains downgrading of case vs. radio blocktimers [Summary] => After getting flak from different sectors, the Cebu City Prosecutor's Office yesterday defended its downgrading of the case that the National Bureau of Investigation filed against two radio blocktimers arrested for alleged extortion.

Cebu City prosecutor Nicolas Sellon said that the case against Reynante "Rey" Cortez and Lito "Bingbong" Solon does not fall under Article 294 of the Revised Penal Code, which has provisions for robbery but rather on Article 282 of the same, which provides for grave threats.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 361210 [Title] => Prosecutor downgrades case vs 2 commentators [Summary] => The Cebu City Prosecutor's Office downgraded the case that the National Bureau of Investigation had filed against the two radio blocktimers who were arrested over the weekend for alleged extortion activity.

Instead of the robbery/extortion case that the NBI had filed against Reynante "Rey" Cortez and Lito "Bingbong" Solon, assistant city prosecutor Patrick Osorio lowered it to only grave threats, a case which is only cognizable by the municipal trial court in cities (MTCC).
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 360592 [Title] => For alleged extortion: NBI agents nab 2 broadcasters in entrapment [Summary] => The KBP-Cebu Broadcasters month officially ends today, but on the eve of the final day of the celebration, agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) nabbed two radio blocktimers for alleged extortion in an entrapment operation. [DatePublished] => 2006-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097538 [AuthorName] => Rene U. Borromeo [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 210008 [Title] => Cebu broadcaster survives shooting [Summary] => CEBU CITY — An unidentified gunman shot and wounded a blocktimer of Bantay Radyo dyDD as he and his radio program partner emerged from the offices of the Bureau of Customs at the city’s port area the other day.

Reynante Cortez, 30, was wounded in the hip by a bullet fired from a caliber .45 pistol and was immediately rushed by his companion, Lito Solon, to the Cebu City Medical Center where doctors later declared him out of danger.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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