Cop and Three Others Face Kidnapping Raps

NAGA CITY (8 November)—A POLICE personnel of the Camarines Sur Police Office (PPO) and three other suspects are facing charges of Frustrated Kidnapping, Illegal Possession of Firearms and Ammo, and violation of the COMELEC Gun-Ban, before the City Prosecutor’s Office here.

Naga City Police Community Precinct 2 (PCP-2), Police Sr. Insp. Benigno Albao Sr. identified the suspects as Gerardo San Jose Oliver, 51, of Zone 6, Del Rosario, Naga City; Nicasio Casimiro Tipones, 44, Zone 4, of Barangay Capucnasan; and Richard Agravante Agapito, 35, of Barangay Mayaopayawan, both of Milaor, Cam. Sur; and SPO1 Francisco “Bong” Bustinera Y Agricola, who was implicated by one of the suspects.

Oliver alleged that it was Bustinera who masterminded the foiled kidnapping of four year-old Zybelle Anne Delgado Parafina at Villa Sorabella Sub., Concepcion Grande, in this city last Friday (Nov. 5).

 In an official report of the Naga City Police Office, PO3 Allen Buen foiled the kidnapping on the 4 year-old minor at the latter’s residence at Lt. 22, Block 26, Sol St. Villa Sorabella Subdivision, at about 11:00 noon of Nov. 5, when suspects Oliver, Tipones and Agapito were caught grabbing the minor at said residence.

 Reportedly, PO3 Buen had been conducting surveillance at the area as directed by PSI Albao based on an informant’s tip that a probable kidnapping will occur in the vicinity.

According to the investigator on the case, PO2 Romeo Idian Vargas Jr., during the course of the apprehension, SPO1 Bustinera arrived in a green Wrangler jeep and urged Buen to release the suspects to his custody, allegedly to be brought to the PPO; Buen did not agree and pursued with the arrest of the three suspects.

It was moreover reported that Bustinera had hidden a blue-green Yamaha motorcycle used by the suspects at a grassy lot some 200-meters from the Parafina residence.

Vargas said that in a sworn statement executed by Oliver before a certain Atty. Rodel Abogado, Bustinera provided the Cal. 38 revolver and ammunition, including the Yamaha motorcycle used during the kidnapping.

It was also Bustinera, according to Oliver’s sworn statement, who planned the criminal activities of their group.

The victim’s parents, Edwin Morandarte Parafina, a local contractor, and wife Josefina Delgado Parafina, claimed that their daughter is a “special child,” and was partly traumatized by the failed kidnapping. (SONNY SALES)