BAGUIO CITY—- The Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) Station 7 and Intelligence Branch operatives arrested the prime suspect in the death of the late Charrmaigne Valerie Manuel Calpito, 15 at around 2:30 p.m. July 3 at No. 49 Happy Homes this city.
In a report to Police Senior Superintendent Enrico G. Salapong by Police Chief Inspector Engelbert Soriano, COP Station 7, the suspect was identified as Roderick Caramonte y Mejia, A.K.A “Jawo”, 18, member of the dreaded “Pinoy True Crips”(PTC) gang and named “ No. 1 Top Most Wanted Person “ in the BCPO 2009 second quarter for being charged for murder (Criminal Case Number 29008-R RTC 59 Baguio City and homicide (Criminal Case Number 26706-R, RTC 60 Baguio City).
Records show that the late high school student Calpito was stabbed dead in the night of November 15, 2008 along Legarda Road by alleged gang members , which drew public outcry in Baguio City especially his family and human rights groups.
Prior to Caramonte’s arrest, another suspect in the sensational crime was also arrested by operatives of Station 7. The suspect Kenneth Sacyang , 18 during investigation pointed to Caramonte as the person who stabbed the victim.
Intelligence operatives of BCPO revealed that their arrest was made possible through the information furnished by their own gangmates due to alleged in-fighting of money.
Caramonte did not resist arrest by police armed with warrants of arrest issued by Judge Iluminada Cabato and Judge Edilberto Claravall.
In the homicide case, the victim was the late Albert Santos, also a student who was killed along Upper Session Road last July 16, 2007/ Caramonte was identified by witnesses as one of five male persons who stabbed and mauled the victim.
Salapong, with the arrest of Caramonte, has once again appealed to the youths in the city and elsewhere to avoid groups who foment and practice violence as they would only end up to be losers when they violate the law.
Records show that the death of the late Calpito and Santos were both offshoot of youth gangsterism and delinquency in Baguio which the BCPO and the community are trying to totally eradicate.
Meanwhile, the suspect in the robbery and carnapping in Crystal Cave , here at around 9:45 a.m. July 1 has been arrested July 2 by operatives of the BCPO Station 10.
Police Chief Inspector Romulo Danglose, COP station 10 identified the arrested suspect as Nero Mocyat Melecio , 32, single, native of Mankayan,Benguet. He is now detained at the Baguio City jail per instruction of inquest prosecutor while the BCPO is doing all follow up operations against other robbery suspects.
Recovered by the operatives were the victim’s vehicle, a Mitsubishi FB with license plate number AEM 358 used by the suspects as their get-away vehicle.. Missing items from victim Jayson Changwaten, a businessman in the gold industry were 900 grams of processed gold, 3.4 kilos of raw materials for processing of gold and one calibre 40 pistol. (BCPO-PIO)
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July 6, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Nice!