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SC chief wants full probe; Koko: focus on arson angle Volume III, No. 197

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February 4, 2015

By Allan M. Mediante Editor in Chief with CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor and GEN G. CANTOR Staff member

Man jumps overboard of Bohol-bound vessel; search still ongoing By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor and GERRY GORIT Correspondent

CAGAYAN de Oro City––A despondent passenger remains missing after jumping overboard a passenger vessel in the seaport of Macabalan Port here Monday night, the local coastguard authorities said Tuesday. Lt. Cmdr. Eleazer Dalnay, the coast guard commander in Northern Mindanao, identified the passenger as 36-year-old Roberto Vetco of South Cotabato. Vetco reportedly jumped overboard M/V Life Ferry 15, a passenger vessel bound for Bohol, Monday night. He said that the local coastguard has launched a massive search and rescue Monday night until Tuesday, but in vain. “We will continue our search until we will find Vetco. We believed that Vetco is still around the port area of Macabalan,” Dalnay said. See jumps, page A7

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Rep. Rufus B. Rodriguez formally turns over a newly constructed Water Sanitation Facility to Gusa National High School – Cugman Annex in Barangay Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City costing P308,000. Together with Rodriguez are City Councilors Eric Salcedo, Roger Abaday and Zaldy Ocon; Barangay Chairman Marlo L. Tabac; DPWH District Engineer Anastacio G. Marundan; and faculty and staff of the school. Photo provided

BOC-10 official belies ‘rice smuggling’ report By GERRY LEE GORIT, Correspondent

CAGAYAN de Oro City--A top official from the Bureau of Customs in Region 10 (BOC-10) yesterday strongly belied published report that confiscated sacks of rice have begun to reach the markets of Metro Manila and Central Luzon. Atty. Roswald Joseph J. Pague, deputy customs collector for Northern Mindanao, said: “We strongly deny the report published in the Philippine Star that the intercepted sacks of rice are already in the markets of Metro Manila and Central Luzon.” Pague’s statement stemmed from the report published on the Philippine Star carrying the headline: “CL farmers want Mindanao rice smuggling probed.” In the story written by Ramon Efren Lazaro, he quoted See report, page A7

CAGAYAN de Oro City––Enraged by reports that the burning of the Hall of Justice buildings her over the weekend was the handiwork of arsonists, Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III called on the police to leave no stone unturned to identify, arrest and prosecute the parties responsible. See FULL STORY, page A3

Gunman kills cop inside cockpit; probe body formed By PJ TREMEDAL Misoc News Bureau

OZAMIZ City--A senior police official here has ordered for a no-nonsense investigation into the shooting to death inside the cockpit of a police officer on Sunday morning. Supt. Michael Bawayan Jr., head of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), ordered the investigation after one of his

men, Senior Police Officer 1 Lorimer Jumalon Codera, was gunned down around 10: 30 a.m. on February 1 inside the cockpit in purok 3 in Barangay Dimaluna. Bawayan has tasked Chief Insp. Joseph Nando to head the investigating panel backed by policemen from the city, provincial, and the CIDG. Bawayan said Codera served as the warrant server of CIDG-Ozamiz City.

There are reports that Codera went inside the cockpit allegedly to monitor the presence of lawless elements, including those who have pending arrest warrants, when the lone gunman approached him and pumped two bullets in his head using a .45 pistol. Codera was hit on the nape and forehead. Not contented, the lone gunman took Codera’s See cockpit, page A7

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