QC cops eye new leads in Delano slay probe

The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) is expected to release within the week an important development in the investigation of the killing of congressional chief of staff Robert Delano, an official said yesterday.

“We’ll release a very good report in about two days,” Superintendent Franklin Moises Mabanag, chief of the QCPD-Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, told reporters in an interview.

Mabanag heads a task force formed to investigate the killing of Delano, chief of staff of Compostela Valley Rep. Manuel “Wai Kurat” Zamora.

According to Mabanag, separate teams from the QCPD-CIDU, QCPD-Station 10, Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) are doing composite investigations into the killing.

Mabanag said the SOCO is checking if there is a match between the slugs recovered from the scene of Delano’s murder and those from past ambush incidents.

He said the CIDG is tracing a Hi-Ace van that reportedly appeared at the crime scene a few minutes after the killing.

Delano was ambushed by three men who approached his vehicle as he was about to leave his house in Barangay Kamuning on Oct. 8.

Lately, investigators are trying to locate a van reportedly seen lurking within the vicinity of Delano’s residence days before the ambush. The van was registered in Daet, Camarines Norte, according to Mabanag. – Reinir Padua