LAST AND FINAL HEARING OF CASE AGAINST LAOAG CITY COPS

The Julian first cousins

We-- my son Eugene and his wife Juvy and I--  reported yesterday, September 24,  to the PNP Regional Investigation and Assistance Service at Camp Oscar Florendo in San Fernando City. The Laoag City cops led by SPO4 Rovimanuel Balolong and SP04 Wilfredo Calubaquib did not appear. Atty. Benilda Indasen gave them time to arrive starting at 2:00 p.m. but they were a no-show. The lawyer advised my son to submit within 15 days a position paper on the case, where PNP Chief Nicanor Bartolome will decide the penalties against the  cops. Whew! A monkey off the blogger's back who has traveled at least 10 times from Isabela to Laoag to San Fernando and back to attend to the case that arose last March 21 when the cops with drawn guns led by SPO4 Balolong barged into the house of Eugene. The cops in civvies arrived on a jeep with no plate number and did not have a search warrant. Only their children were inside the house at that time. It turned out they were looking for a certain Victor Padayao, 44, an alleged drug pusher, who lives elsewhere. Barangay chair Marlon Blanco, a relative, said the cops did not coordinate with village officials in this so-called "buy-bust" operation.