{"id":10616,"date":"2024-12-11T00:07:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=10616"},"modified":"2024-12-11T00:07:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:07:57","slug":"cops-hunt-kidnappers-of-business-caretaker-in-bataan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/cops-hunt-kidnappers-of-business-caretaker-in-bataan\/","title":{"rendered":"COPS HUNT KIDNAPPERS OF BUSINESS CARETAKER IN BATAAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>POLICE are hunting down the &nbsp;seven members of a kidnap-for-ransom group who abducted a business caretaker and released him after paying ransom in Bataan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Three of the suspects were &nbsp;positively identified by the victim from the police rogues gallery, according to a report to Police Regional Office 3 director Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The three were&nbsp;Jefferson Quiliza alias &#8220;Jean Corona\/Jeff,&#8221; Romel Alvarez alias &#8220;Taba,&#8221;&nbsp; and Rodney Dominguez.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Four other members of the kidnap-for-ransom group are still unidentified.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Investigation showed victim Julito Baja, 36, of Bgy. Gugo, Samal, Bataan, was manning the business establishment of his sister-in-law on Roman Highway, Bgy. Gugo, Samal when seven men on a white van with plate no. NEU 8577arrived, forcibly dragged him&nbsp;to the waiting&nbsp;&nbsp;vehicle and transported him to an undisclosed location.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The suspects later demanded P50,000 ransom from the owner of the establishment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Upon payment of the ransom, the victim was released unharmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Baja, who later reported the incident to the Samal police, positively identified the three suspects from the police rogues gallery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Samal police said the suspects were also involved in previous robbery cases in the province.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG POLICE are hunting down the &nbsp;seven members of a kidnap-for-ransom group who abducted a business caretaker and released him after paying ransom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ewveeh2a.png",534,355,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ewveeh2a-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ewveeh2a-300x199.png",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ewveeh2a.png",534,355,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ewveeh2a.png",534,355,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ewveeh2a.png",534,355,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ewveeh2a.png",534,355,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ewveeh2a.png",534,355,false],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ewveeh2a.png",534,355,false],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ewveeh2a.png",534,355,false],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ewveeh2a-350x350.png",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/category\/provincial\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Provincial<\/a>","tag_info":"Provincial","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10618,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions\/10618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}