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                    [Title] => NBI probing 2 angles in slay of Customs officer in Cebu
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The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is looking into two angles as possible motive in the killing of a Customs officer in Lapu-Lapu City in Cebu last Feb. 6. 


NBI deputy director for regional operations Reynaldo Esmeralda said the killing of Jason Alcantara, assistant chief of the Customs clearing office at the Port of Cebu, could either be work- or drug-related, based on the bureau’s initial investigation.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 236326 [Title] => Evidence vs 2 suspects in Customs men’s slays ‘enough’ [Summary] => CEBU CITY — The city prosecutor’s office has stood by its earlier decision to file criminal cases in court against two suspects in the ambush-killing of a Customs deputy collector and an examiner here in July last year.

In his reinvestigation report, prosecutor Victor Laborte said there is enough evidence to establish probable cause to charge Juan Jesus Vergel de Dios and Rustico Fernandez in the Regional Trial Court.

Laborte said the alibis of De Dios and Fernandez are matters which the court will determine and decide in a trial on the merits of the case. [DatePublished] => 2004-01-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 235969 [Title] => Bibit: NBI being used to destroy me [Summary] => CEBU — Cebu Customs collector Billy Bibit suspects that the seizure by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) of 25 right-hand-drive luxury vehicles valued at P12 million and the allusion to his son as having facilitated their slipping through Customs was a demolition job against him by his enemies, with the NBI acting as a witting or unwitting tool.

Although his son has never been categorically linked to the controversy in any of the media reports about the NBI seizure, Bibit felt his son and namesake has been alluded to, prompting him to publicly cry foul.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 232147 [Title] => TV reporter testifies on Cebu City ambush [Summary] => CEBU CITY — The city prosecutor’s office summoned a television reporter the other day to testify on admissions made to the media by one of two suspects in the ambush-killing of two Customs officers last July.

In her testimony, GMA-7 reporter Jolene Bulambot told investigating prosecutor Victor Laborte how Juan Jesus Vergel de Dios cried and admitted being afraid when asked by media if he, indeed, pulled the trigger on Customs deputy collector Eduardo Lao and examiner Bennet Soreño in the late afternoon of July 24.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 223423 [Title] => Fiscal handling Customs men’s slay gets threat [Summary] => The prosecutor handling the preliminary investigation into the recent killing of two Customs officers here is wary of his safety after a suspicious person came to him last week and warned him to be careful. [DatePublished] => 2003-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 222147 [Title] => NBI to get shipment papers in Singapore [Summary] => CEBU CITY — The probe on the disappearance of two container vans, out of the 10 seized by the Bureau of Customs, at the Cebu International Port last Sept. 7, may extend to Singapore.

This, after Customs broker Lucia Caburnay told the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) the other day that her name was used without her authority in the documents filed with the Customs for the shipment of the vans from Singapore, further claiming that her signature was forged.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 221311 [Title] => Cebu slay suspect recants [Summary] => CEBU CITY — A day after admitting to reporters his role in the July 24 ambush-slaying of two Customs officers, one of the two suspects now under the custody of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) recanted, claiming he does not know how to drive a motorcycle.

Suspect Juan Jesus Vergel de Dios earlier told reporters that he drove the motorcycle used by the other suspect, Rustico Fernandez, in gunning down Customs deputy collector for operations Eduardo Lao and examiner Bennet Soreno.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220946 [Title] => Customs officer linked to slays [Summary] => CEBU CITY — One of the two suspects in the recent ambush-slaying of two Customs officers here decided to tell all while in the custody of the National Bureau of Investigation, tagging another Customs officer as the alleged mastermind.

Juan Jesus Vergel de Dios, a driver of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS), claimed that he and Rustico Fernandez, an errand boy at the same office, were allegedly hired by the Customs officer to kill deputy collector for operations Eduardo Lao and examiner Bennet Soreno.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220802 [Title] => 2 suspects in murders of 2 Customs men fall [Summary] => CEBU CITY — Two suspects in the recent ambush-slaying of two Customs men here have been arrested and are now in the custody of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). [DatePublished] => 2003-09-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220598 [Title] => NBI holds bagman in Cebu port van theft [Summary] => CEBU CITY —The alleged bagman in the payoff that allegedly resulted in the theft of 10 seized container vans containing smuggled rice from Singapore from the Cebu International Port showed up at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) here to clear his name but succeeded only in issuing conflicting statements.

Winley dela Fuente, not Wendell as erroneously reported earlier, came with his brother Bobby to deny allegations made by three witnesses now in NBI custody.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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