{"id":20224,"date":"2026-05-28T01:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=20224"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:13:25","slug":"pnp-cidg-nbi-fail-to-find-icc-wanted-dela-rosa-in-angeles-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/pnp-cidg-nbi-fail-to-find-icc-wanted-dela-rosa-in-angeles-city\/","title":{"rendered":"PNP-CIDG, NBI FAIL TO FIND ICC-WANTED DELA ROSA IN ANGELES CITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JOINT operatives of the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Regional Field Unit 3 (CIDG-RFU3)\u00a0\u00a0and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Tuesday failed to find Sen. Ronald &#8220;Bato&#8221; dela Rosa in Angeles City, Pampanga who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">According to CIDG Regional Field Unit 3 chief Col. Grant Gollod, \u00a0the operatives conducted the operation at around 5:55 a.m. on Tuesday at a residence on Misael Street in Barangay Balibago, Angeles City.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The operation involved personnel from the CIDG RFU3 Regional Special Operations Team, Angeles City Field Unit, Pampanga Provincial Field Unit, the National Bureau of Investigation Organized and Transnational Crime Division, and the City Mobile Force Company of the Angeles City Police Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">The serving of the ICC arrest warrant yielded negative results after authorities failed to find dela Rosa at the target location.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">Police said the operation stemmed from information received by the unit indicating that the senator was allegedly hiding at the said house.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">Authorities also received a tip that the driver of the vehicle last seen with dela Rosa supposedly resides at the same address.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">The tracker team later proceeded to the area to verify the information and coordinated with Bgy. Balibago kagawad Ednel A. Batac and Maribel Gadong-Cari\u00f1o, wife of Purok leader Virgilio Cari\u00f1o Sr., who assisted and witnessed the operation.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">During validation, authorities learned that the property is owned by Maribel Gadong-Cari\u00f1o, who is married to Virgilio Cari\u00f1o Sr., allegedly identified by authorities as the driver of the vehicle reportedly used in assisting dela Rosa\u2019s escape.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">Investigators further determined that the house is currently being leased to a certain Vina Espi\u00f1a Pentajoy.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No further details were immediately released regarding the senator\u2019s whereabouts or any succeeding operations.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">However, there were reports that the home visited by the operatives was allegedly owned by the uncle of Sen. Robin Padilla.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Padilla is reportedly <\/strong><strong>facing obstruction of justice charges before the Department of Justice (DOJ) for helping dela Rosa escape from the Senate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG &nbsp; JOINT operatives of the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Regional Field Unit 3 (CIDG-RFU3)&nbsp;&nbsp;and the National Bureau of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20224"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20226,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20224\/revisions\/20226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}