PNP News Releases 2005

P N P News Release No. 05-0802
Authority : P/ SR SUPT LEOPOLDO N BATAOIL PNP
Public Information Office, Camp Crame , Quezon City
Telefax: (632) 7255115 Email: information@pnp.gov.ph
Date : Thursday, 04 August 2005

SUSPECTS IN KILLING OF CHINOY TRADER; SIX KIDNAP SUSPECTS NABBED

Police operatives arrested six suspected members of a notorious kidnapping syndicate believed responsible in the killing of a Chinese-Filipino businessman during a botched kidnapping last month.

In a news conference in Camp Crame, PNP Chief, Director General Arturo C Lomibao said the neutralization of the syndicate was the result of a well coordinate police operation involving operatives from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), the Police Anti-Crime and Emergency Response (PACER), National Anti-Kidnapping Task Force (NAKTF), and the Central Police District (CPD).

The arrested suspects were:

  • Aldrin MAGAT y Globa, 37 years old of Brgy Llano, Caloocan City
  • Reynaldo CALDONA y Requiona alias Larry, 38, a native of Javier, Leyte and a resident of valley Golf, Cainta, Rizal
  • Jessie FERNANDEZ of Sta. Quiteria, Caloocan City
  • Aurelio ISIDRO Jr. of Bacoor, Cvite
  • Richard SEBLANTE of Imus, Cavite
  • Benjie JACOSALEM y Rabor, 25, a native of Guihulngan, Negros Oriental and a resident of Valley Golf, Cainta, Rizal

The suspects were arrested in a series of police operations conducted by combined operatives of the CIDG, PACER-NAKTF, and CPD in Metro Manila and Cavite .

Police recovered from the suspects a cal.9mm Madzen machine pistol, a cal.45 pistol, two cal.38 revolvers, two (2) handgrenades, and a motorcycle.

The suspects are believed to be member of the LEY-SAM (Leyte-Samar) KFR and Robbery Group that operates in Metro Manila and nearby provinces.

The same group is tagged as behind the fatal shooting of businessman Shir Mon Choa and the wounding of his brother Shir Chuang Choa during an attempted kidnapping last July 12, 2005 at around 9:30pm along Mulawinan St. inside the Cabral Industrial Park in Barangay Lawang Bato, Valenzuela City .

The same group is also believed responsible for:

  • the kidnapping of hardware owner in Angono, Rizal in April this year;
  • the kidnapping of a councilor in Caloocan City in May 2004;
  • Robbery hold-up at the Blumentritt Market in March 2005;
  • Robery hold-up of two Taiwanese in Meycauayan, Bulacan;
  • Robbery hold-up at the GMA Station of the MRT-EDSA in 2003;
  • Robbery hold-up of a jukshop in San Bartolome, Quezon City last month;
other robberies victimizing Indian traders in defferent parts of Metro Manila.