CIDG wants fugitive cops on most wanted list

• Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/local-news/2015/07/21/cidg-wants-fugitive-cops-most-wanted-list-420260
• Tuesday, July 21, 2015

By LYNYRD ALEXSEI N. CORRALES

THE inclusion of two Cagayan de Oro City policemen facing murder and attempted murder charges in the city’s list of most wanted criminals has been proposed by an official of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG).

PO1s Manuel Quipanes and Jun Reil Barrientos are among the accused in the December 2014 killing of three persons and the frustrated murder of another.

Chief Inspector Melgar Devaras, CIDG deputy chief for Northern Mindanao, said Quipanes and Barrientos should be placed in the list to compel all police units in the city to speed up efforts for their arrest.

“Isa sa pinakamabigat na kaso meron tayo dito ang kaso nila," Devaras said.

The two officers disappeared shortly after prosecutors implicated them in the killing of brothers Roland and Harold Jamaca, whose bodies were found cuffed and riddled with bullets in Barangay Mambuaya last December 11.

Two other city policemen, Senior Inspector Ludwig Charles Espera and Inspector Arnel Gighe, have been charged in the death of the Jamaca brothers’ companion, Ma. Erika Yabut, and the frustrated murder of Jim Jamaca.

Espera and Gighe turned themselves in and are detained at the Lumbia City Jail.

Retired policeman Rolando Jamaca Sr., the brothers’ father, welcomed Devaras’ suggestion.

The elder Jamaca, who used to be work in the warrants section of the city police, said he cannot understand why Quipanes and Barrientos remain at large.

“As an ex-policeman, I still have contacts on the ground who tell me that the two are still in the city,” Jamaca said while waiting outside the courtroom where the judge was hearing the bail petition of Espera and Gighe.

The Jamaca brothers, their cousin Jim Jamaca and Yabut were said to be police assets.

According to Jim Jamaca, the four of them were summoned to a meeting by Espera, Gighe and the other officers on December 10.

Jamaca said that when they showed up for the supposed meeting, the officers brought them instead to separate locations where they were shot and left to die.