PRO-8 vows relentless efforts vs. wanted criminals in 2013

By RPCRD, Police Regional Office 8
January 4, 2013

CAMP SEC. RUPERTO K. KANGLEON, Palo, Leyte  –  The Police Regional Office 8 (PRO8) vowed relentless pursuit operations against criminals wanted by law as its top official reported that the Regional Special Operation Group (RSOG) scored anew in manhunt operations conducted in the cities of Ormoc and Catbalogan recently.

“The RSOG accomplishments should serve as a warning to lawless elements that the long arms of the law always catches up with criminals wherever they may hide,” Police Chief Superintendent Elmer Ragadio Soria, PRO8 Regional Director said.

Soria added that for this year, PRO8 will continue to account for wanted persons as he cited the cooperation extended by Eastern Visayas communities to his men in the arrest of undesirable personalities.

The Regional Director informed that in the evening of January 2, an intelligence driven operation paid-off when RSOG led by SPO4 Ananias Monteroso collared Dionisio Sedon, Jr. alias Karing, 63, married, self-employed and formerly residing in Brgy. Rama, an island village in Catbalogan City.

Sedon is ranked number 9 Most Wanted Person in Samar province’s capital Catbalogan City, and was arrested in his hide-out in Purok 2, Brgy. Tongonan, Ormoc City.

The police team was armed with an Alias Warrant of Arrest issued on June 21, 2011 by Acting Presiding Judge Manuel F. Torrevillas, Jr. of the Regional Trial Court Branch 27, 8th Judicial Region based in Catbalogan City for a murder case that transpired sometime in 2010.

Judge Torrevillas did not recommend any bailbond for the suspect’s temporary liberty in the complaint docketed under Criminal Case number 7893.

Sedon was pinpointed by the witnesses as the suspect in a brutal killing of his neighbor Mary Jane Sarayan that transpired in the evening of July 9, 2010.

Police records showed that the suspect stabbed Saraya from behind with a bladed weapon locally known as “sipol and went immediately into hiding. He is presently detained at Bureau of Jail Management and Penology jail facility in Brgy Lagundi, Catbalogan City awaiting trial of his case.

Meanwhile, in Catbalogan City, a 42-year old jobless man wanted for 13 long years for allegedly raping a minor in the evening of March 20, 1999 in Brgy Old Mahayag was also nabbed by RSOG.

Alejandro Mabansag alias Anling, was arrested by a police team led by Police Inspector Constantino Jabonete, Jr. in the evening of on December 21, 2012 in the outskirts area of said village.

The suspect is facing rape charges in accordance with Republic Act 7659 (Death Penalty Law) in Criminal Case number 4799 at the sala of Judge Sinforiano A. Monsanto of the Regional Trial Court Branch 27 also in Catbalogan City with no bail recommended for his temporary liberty. He is temporarily detained at Catbalogan lock-up cell for proper disposition.