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                    [Title] => Charges versus 3 Cebu drug suspects dropped
                    [Summary] => CEBU CITY — A regional trial court judge has dismissed the charges against three drug suspects for failure of the prosecution to prove their guilt beyond reasonable doubt. 


Last April, the Court of Appeals issued the entry of judgment stamping with finality the physical evidence against Giovanni Gimenez, Jovan Gimenez and Victor Ceniza as "inadmissible."
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 209262 [Title] => Cebu City fiscal gets reprieve from CA [Summary] => CEBU CITY — A controversial assistant city prosecutor here has won a reprieve when the Court of Appeals (CA) temporarily restrained the Office of the Ombudsman and the city’s chief prosecutor from implementing her three-month suspension.

The appellate court’s order came two days after Mary Ann Castro filed an amended petition for certiorari that added the city’s chief prosecutor, Jose Pedrosa, to Deputy Ombudsman for the Visayas Primo Miro and director Virginia Palanca-Santiago as respondents in an earlier petition.
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In February last year, a certain A. Robles filed the complaint with the DOJ, claiming the city’s chief prosecutor, Jose Pedrosa, and regional state prosecutor Hernando Masangkay did not conduct any investigation into the alleged bribery involving assistant prosecutors Mary Ann Castro, William Canta and Tolomeo Dinoy.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 158264 [Title] => Cebu City fiscal on the warpath [Summary] => CEBU CITY — An assistant city prosecutor here is gearing up for a war against her detractors.

Mary Ann Castro told The Freeman that she is preparing to file administrative and criminal cases against two lawyers whom she accused of dragging her into a bribery mess.

The Office of the Ombudsman earlier ruled that Castro received the P10,000 alleged bribe money from lawyer Gines Abellana in connection with a drug case, and only returned it as an afterthought.
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Giovanni Gimenez said the CIDG team also demanded the amount so that he would be released, together with his brother Jovan and cousin Victor Ceniza, after they were arrested for illegal drug possession last Sept. 7.
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Lawyer Gines Abellana said the accusation of assistant prosecutor Mary Ann Castro Roa that he attempted to bribe her by leaving P10,000 on her table last Friday was "highly preposterous."
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The regional police was reacting to a STAR story, written by the Freeman News Service, quoting Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña as saying that he has lost confidence in Chief Superintendent Avelino Razon, Central Visayas police director, and the entire Philippine National Police (PNP) hierarchy.
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Aside from Benatiro, three other police officers are to be charged: deputy chief for administration Marciano del Mar for negligence, and detective bureau chief Perfecto ‘Roy’ Cordiñera and SPO2 Ranilo Nabua for grave misconduct.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Charges versus 3 Cebu drug suspects dropped
                    [Summary] => CEBU CITY — A regional trial court judge has dismissed the charges against three drug suspects for failure of the prosecution to prove their guilt beyond reasonable doubt. 


Last April, the Court of Appeals issued the entry of judgment stamping with finality the physical evidence against Giovanni Gimenez, Jovan Gimenez and Victor Ceniza as "inadmissible."
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 209262 [Title] => Cebu City fiscal gets reprieve from CA [Summary] => CEBU CITY — A controversial assistant city prosecutor here has won a reprieve when the Court of Appeals (CA) temporarily restrained the Office of the Ombudsman and the city’s chief prosecutor from implementing her three-month suspension.

The appellate court’s order came two days after Mary Ann Castro filed an amended petition for certiorari that added the city’s chief prosecutor, Jose Pedrosa, to Deputy Ombudsman for the Visayas Primo Miro and director Virginia Palanca-Santiago as respondents in an earlier petition.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 199515 [Title] => DOJ dismisses extortion complaint vs 3 Cebu City prosecutors [Summary] => CEBU CITY — The Department of Justice (DOJ) has cleared three assistant procecutors here on allegations that they extorted money from a suspected Hong Kong triad member to soften their prosecution of his drug case.

In February last year, a certain A. Robles filed the complaint with the DOJ, claiming the city’s chief prosecutor, Jose Pedrosa, and regional state prosecutor Hernando Masangkay did not conduct any investigation into the alleged bribery involving assistant prosecutors Mary Ann Castro, William Canta and Tolomeo Dinoy.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 158264 [Title] => Cebu City fiscal on the warpath [Summary] => CEBU CITY — An assistant city prosecutor here is gearing up for a war against her detractors.

Mary Ann Castro told The Freeman that she is preparing to file administrative and criminal cases against two lawyers whom she accused of dragging her into a bribery mess.

The Office of the Ombudsman earlier ruled that Castro received the P10,000 alleged bribe money from lawyer Gines Abellana in connection with a drug case, and only returned it as an afterthought.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 151402 [Title] => Cops demanded P1.5 M from us – drug suspect [Summary] => CEBU CITY — A suspected Hong Kong triad member alleged the other day that members of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), who arrested him last year, demanded P1.5 million as settlement money so that a drug case would not be filed against him.

Giovanni Gimenez said the CIDG team also demanded the amount so that he would be released, together with his brother Jovan and cousin Victor Ceniza, after they were arrested for illegal drug possession last Sept. 7.
[DatePublished] => 2002-02-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 149182 [Title] => IBP official belies fiscal’s bribe rap [Summary] => CEBU CITY — An Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) official, who was accused by a government prosecutor of attempting to bribe her to "take it easy" in the case of suspected Hong Kong triad members, believes that the accusation was meant to hide a more sordid tale in the prosecution.

Lawyer Gines Abellana said the accusation of assistant prosecutor Mary Ann Castro Roa that he attempted to bribe her by leaving P10,000 on her table last Friday was "highly preposterous."
[DatePublished] => 2002-02-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 139947 [Title] => ‘Probe of ex-Cebu City police chief was fair’ [Summary] => The Central Visayas police command said yesterday the investigation into the former police chief of Cebu City was fair and that based on the evidence gathered by the five-man probe team, he had been negligent in supervising his men.

The regional police was reacting to a STAR story, written by the Freeman News Service, quoting Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña as saying that he has lost confidence in Chief Superintendent Avelino Razon, Central Visayas police director, and the entire Philippine National Police (PNP) hierarchy.
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 139804 [Title] => I’ve lost confidence in Razon — Osmeña [Summary] => CEBU CITY — Mayor Tomas Osmeña said he has lost his trust in regional police director Avelino Razon because of the investigation into the arrest of a suspected drug courier... [DatePublished] => 2001-11-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136589 [Title] => Cebu cop chief axed over drug raid mess [Summary] => CEBU CITY — City police chief Hiram Benatiro will be relieved of his post and will face summary dismissal proceedings for failing to supervise his men whose arrest of alleged members of a Hong Kong triad last month did not follow procedure.

Aside from Benatiro, three other police officers are to be charged: deputy chief for administration Marciano del Mar for negligence, and detective bureau chief Perfecto ‘Roy’ Cordiñera and SPO2 Ranilo Nabua for grave misconduct.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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