Pespes, the director of the PNP Headquarters Support Service, will surely get a promotion, along with the police snipers who shot dead the escaping inmates. Their timely and decisive action saved the day for the PNP and they deserve their promotion.įunny, however, is a comment on the hostage-taking incident from an “expert.” Sen. The former senator, a leading critic of the drug war of both former President Rodrigo Duterte and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., has been detained at the Custodial Center in Camp Crame since 2017, on drug charges. Mark Pespes that ended the hostage incident and saved the life of De Lima. One bullet also saved the honor and reputation of the PNP, its chief General Rodolfo Azurin Jr., and the President. Had Pespes failed and De Lima was killed, it would have been both a national and international embarrassment. It was sheer grit and presence of mind of Col. Two of those inmates, Arnel Cabintoy and Idang Susukan, were shot dead escaping while the third inmate, Feliciano Sulayao Jr., ran to De Lima’s cell thinking that it was the exit, then held her hostage with a knife. Sulayao tied and blindfolded the former senator, and negotiated with police, at one time asking for a Hummer and a helicopter. ‘Senator Bato should have known that an escape try and worse, a hostage-taking incident, should not have occurred inside a jail facility if it is really secured.’ That inmate then opened the cell of two others as they tried to escape, not knowing there was a sniper above. Roger Agustin was bringing breakfast to the detainees when one of them stabbed him repeatedly with a fork. It was Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos who recounted the incident to the public. He said that at 6 a.m. Hours later, the three supposed escapees, who were identified as Abu Sayyaf members, were dead and De Lima emerged safe and unhurt from her ordeal.
THE usual peace and quiet on a Sunday morning in Metro Manila was shattered by the news that Camp Crame’s VIP detainee former senator Leila de Lima was taken hostage by one of three prisoners trying to escape from the highly secured Custodial Center of the Philippine National Police.
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