MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE

MANLA, Philippines - Forty-three persons including a

politician about to file her and her brother's certificates of
candidacy (COCs), as well as journalists covering the
event were confirmed killed when heavily armed men
waylaid the group on its way to the local Commission on
Elections (Comelec) office in Maguindanao.
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Public nformation
Office chief Lt. Col. Romero Brawner confirmed that as of
yesterday afternoon, ground troops had recovered 21
bodies 13 women and eight men from the massacre
site in Barangay Saniag, Ampatuan town.
Supporters of Buluan Vice Mayor Toto Mangudadatu and
Mangudadatu Vice Mayor Eden Mangudadatu and their
companions were on their way to the Comelec office to
file COCs at around 10:30 a.m. when they were blocked
at a checkpoint manned by some 100 Maguindanao police personnel and armed civilian
volunteers allegedly led by Datu Unsay town mayor Datu Andal Ampatuan Jr.
Ampatuan was not available for comment.
Reports from the Army's 6th nfantry Division reported that a certain Police Senior nspector
Dicay of Shariff Aguak accompanied Ampatuan. Three vehicles owned by the Mangudadatu's
were found burned.
Toto Mangudadatu, who was not with the convoy, is reportedly eyeing the gubernatorial seat in
the May 2010 elections and had asked his wife to file his COC.
Aside from Bai Eden, the other victims were identified as Genalyn Tiamzon-Mangudadatu, the
vice mayor's wife who was raped before being killed; lawyers Connie Brizuela and Cynthia
Oquendo and her father, Bai Farinah Mangudadatu; Faridah Sabdulah; Manguba Bai
Mangudadatu, Toto's aunt; Farida Mangudadatu, Toto's youngest sister.
The journalists were identified as an Toblan, Leah Dalmacio, Gina dela Cruz, Joy Duhay, Andy
Teodoro, Mac-Mac Areola, Bart Maravilla of Bombo Radyo Koronadal, Henry Araneta of dzRH
Cotabato, Bong Reblando of Manila Bulletin and Neneng Montano of local radio dxCP.
Also reported killed were Rasul Daud, driver of Mangudadatu, Wahida Ali Kaliman, Farida
Sabdula, Zorayda Vernan, Victor Nuez, Zaida Abdul, Pinky Balayman, Ella Balayman, Rahima
Piopo, Abdullah Hajji, Patrick Pamansan, Meriam Calicol, a certain Unto and a certain Chito,
and eight others who were not included in the list.
Toto said his wife and her companions left Buluan town at about 9 a.m. on board several
vehicles and were flagged down by armed men at Barangay Kauran in Ampatuan,
Maguindanao some 30 minutes later.
"Six members of the group that was to bring my certificate of candidacy to Shariff Aguak were
beheaded by the gunmen that flagged them down at a portion of a highway near Shariff Aguak.
The police and the military have to do something, Mangudadatu told Catholic station dxND in
Kidapawan City.
" opted not to provide armed security escorts to the group to avoid possible tension during the
filing of my COC, he added.
The Mangudadatu clan is known to have a long-running feud with the family of Maguindanao's
incumbent Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr., who police said is known to have his own private army

ONLINE DATES LEAD TO RAPE
PR executive charged with assauIting women he met through dating website

By Jason Meisner, Tribune reporter
September 10, 2011
A vice president with a Chicago public relations
firm has been charged with sexually assaulting
two women he met on a dating website and took
to bars in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Bond was set at $500,000 for gnacio "an"
Carrillo, 37, when he appeared in court Friday on
two counts of criminal sexual assault.
Carrillo, of the 2000 block of West Irving
Park Road, was arrested Thursday after a 33-year-old Skokie woman identified him through his
online dating profile as the man she says raped her during a date last week, according to a
police report.

While in custody, Carrillo was linked to the 2009 sexual assault of a 38-year-old west suburban
woman, also during a date they had set up online, according to the report.

Prosecutors said that in the most recent incident, Carrillo met the victim for drinks Sept. 3 at a
bar in Lincoln Park. They then went to a parking garage in the 2500 block of North Clark Street,
where Carrillo pinned the woman against his Porsche convertible, lifted her dress and sexually
assaulted her.

Carrillo then tried to drive the woman to a motel, but she insisted he take her home, Assistant
State's Attorney Denise Loiterstein said. After he dropped her off about a block from her house,
she called her sister and went to the hospital.

While Carrillo was being questioned about that attack, police discovered there "was a previously
reported incident" involving a woman who reported being raped on Oct. 15, 2009, according to
reports. How Carrillo was linked to that case was not immediately clear, but the scenario was
similar to the September incident.

"They met at a bar and after a couple of drinks, (the victim) immediately felt disoriented,"
Loiterstein said. "The defendant was holding her because she could not stand up straight."

Carrillo took her to another bar and then to a Lincoln Park motel, where she "called and sent a
text message to her sister saying she needed help and that she was not well," Loiterstein said.

Carrillo threw the woman's cellphone across the room and raped her, Loiterstein said.
Sometime later, the victim's sister got to the hotel room, saw Carrillo lying naked on the bed,
and was able to grab her sister and run.

"Both victims identified the defendant through his profile photo on the dating website,"
Loiterstein said. The website was not identified in court or in police records.

Carrillo has no criminal history. According to his court-appointed attorney, he is an Army veteran
and an executive at Flowers Communications Group, a downtown public relations firm that
specializes in multicultural markets.

Carrillo was promoted to vice president in July, according to a news release on the company's
website.
By Matthew Walberg and Joe Mahr, Tribune reporters






















State paid sex offenders as baby sitters
IIIinois' baby-sitting program has given rapists, moIesters and other vioIent feIons
access to kids

August 28, 2011
Cornelius Osborne may not seem like baby-sitting material.

He was convicted of raping two women. A succession of
felonies, from robbery to failing to register as a sex offender,
repeatedly sent him to prison, state records show.
But over more than two years, the state paid Osborne nearly
$5,000 to baby-sit two children, before his latest conviction
for dealing drugs put him back behind bars.

Osborne, of Chicago, wasn't the only sex offender paid by taxpayers to baby-sit, according to a
Tribune investigation that found cases of convicted rapists, molesters and other violent felons
given access to children over the past decade. The money comes from a $750 million-a-year
program that subsidizes child care for more than 150,000 impoverished IIIinoisfamilies.

The state Department of Human Services poorly vetted baby sitters for years and when a
2009 law forced better checks, it took nearly 18 months to start them, the newspaper's
investigation of the Child Care Assistance Program found.

Also, despite the reforms, the Tribune found that even now the state lacks safeguards to weed
out baby sitters who watch children while living in the homes of sex offenders and other felons
deemed too dangerous for the program. Based on those findings, the state is vowing further
reforms.

t's nearly impossible to determine just how many of the illegal baby-sitting arrangements the
state has allowed. The newspaper found no cases where children were harmed, although
privacy laws shield data needed to do an in-depth study.

Still, the Tribune's findings are frustrating to Sen. Matt Murphy, R-Palatine, who pushed for the
reforms mandating better checks to weed out illegal arrangements.

"You're talking about not only the state sanctioning, but the state creating, an economic
incentive for someone with a criminal record to be in a room with a kid," Murphy said. "That's
frankly not a situation that find acceptable."

Advocates such as Maria Whelan insist that the vast majority of baby sitters are aboveboard
and that the 14-year-old federal-state program is key to helping parents work their way out of
poverty. About half of the subsidies are in Cook County, where they are administered by the
nonprofit llinois Action for Children run by Whelan.

"This is a program that is absolutely essential if we are going to, with a straight face, tell families
that if they work and if they continue to develop themselves, we can help them make a
difference for their families," she said.

Program administrators have gotten national recognition for weeding out parents who don't
qualify for the subsidies. But records show they've struggled for years to weed out disqualified
baby sitters, such as Osborne.

























Gary teen charged in rape at South Shore station
PoIice pick up sophomore at schooI in attack on homeIess woman caught on video

August 25, 2011
A 16-year-old boy from Gary, nd., has been charged in
connection with the rape and robbery of a 68-year-old
homeless woman earlier this month at the Miller South
Shore station, officials said Wednesday.

Aarion Teri Lee Mosley of the 1100 block of Cass Street
has been charged as an adult with multiple counts of
rape, robbery and criminal deviate conduct, according to
a news release issued by Northern IndianaCommuter Transportation District police. Mosley is
at the Lake County, nd., Jail.
At 11:50 p.m. Aug. 13, the victim sought refuge from the rain inside the station's passenger
shelter and was eating a meal. Mosley allegedly entered the shelter on a bicycle minutes later.

The teen pulled out a handgun and told the woman that if she did not comply with his demands
he would kill her, according to police.

After raping the woman, the teen got back on his bicycle and rode away, police said. The attack
was caught on parking lot security cameras.

Other videos were provided to police from area businesses, police said. Once the video was
reviewed, NCTD Transit Police Detective Bill Biggs recognized Mosley as a person he arrested
at the Miller Station a day after the rape for breaking into a car, police said.

Mosley, who is a sophomore at Gary's Lew Wallace High School, was picked up for questioning
Monday at the school and later admitted his involvement in the rape, police said.

Police found a BB gun, bicycle and clothing allegedly worn by Mosley at the time of the attack.
The analysis of DNA evidence is pending, police said.








Imprisoned murderer says he pIans to pIead guiIty to 1976 kiIIing of woman
By Christy Gutowski, Carlos Sadovi and Liam FordTribune reporters
5:35 p.m. CDT, August 2, 2011

A long-imprisoned murderer told a judge today
he plans to plead guilty to a decades-old
murder in the western suburbs.

" am going to plead guilty," Michael Whitney,
58, said in a soft voice as he appeared at a
bond hearing on charges of murdering
Darlene Stack, a 28-year-old medical
technician student.

When Associate DuPage County Judge Neal
Cerne offered to appoint a public defender for him, Whitney said, " don't want one, sir."

Cerne appointed one anyway and denied bail for Whitney, who was dressed in an orange jail
jumpsuit, his hands shackled in front of him.
Stack was found stabbed 33 times in her room in a boarding house in the 1400 block of North
Stoddard Avenue in Wheaton in August of 1976. She was gagged and her hands bound behind
her back with strips of a bedsheet. She had been raped, authorities said in court.
A law enforcement source told the Tribune that Whitney -- currently in prison for a 1982 murder
-- has long been a suspect in Stack's slaying. But he had an alibi provided by his girlfriend who
lived with him at the boarding house.
Then DNA testing provided a breakthrough, prosecutors said in court.
About five to six years ago,Wheaton police reopened the investigation and sent the sheet from
Stack's bed to the DuPage County sheriff's crime lab, which found semen on it. Authorities were
able to match it to Whitney.

"Once police learned of this DNA evidence, they went back and spoke to the one alibi this
defendant had," Prosecutor Joseph Ruggiero said in court.

Whitney and his girlfriend had told police they had gone to West Chicago to buy a can of pop
and then went to the Blackwell Forest Preserve. The girlfriend told police Whitney was never
away from her side, and that if he had left their twin bed, she would have known it.

"Not only was she in love with the defendant back then, she was also scared of him," Ruggiero
said.

But after being confronted with the DNA evidence, she changed her story, Ruggiero said.

She told police that Whitney had gone out drinking that night and, at some point during the
evening, had gotten up from their bed naked and walked out of their room and upstairs to
Stack's room, Ruggiero said.

The woman told police she then heard muffled screams from Stack's bedroom, Ruggiero said.
"n a panic for what she thought the defendant was doing, she left the house," Ruggiero said.

After the woman returned to the boarding house, she found Whitney pacing back and forth in
their room. They drove to the DuPage River, across from the Winfield Fire District building. She
saw Whitney wipe off the knife and throw it into the river, Ruggiero said.

Whitney told the girlfriend he had killed Stack, Ruggiero said.

Not only did the woman provide an alibi, she also testified at least three times before a DuPage
County grand jury. "t wasn't until recently that she came forward with the truth," Ruggiero said.
Stack had just moved into the boarding house after having resided with one of three sisters in
Chicago. She had been attending classes at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield to become a
medical technician.
"She was only there a few days before she was brutally raped and murdered," said Ruggiero,
who showed the judge two pictures of the crime scene.
Stack had been engaged to Dwight Omi, who died in 2004 at age 56. His brothers said he never
got over her death. Omi never married and did not leave behind any children, according to Paul
and Dan Omi.

"t think it had quite an impact on my brother, he tried to get past it but a certain joy seemed to
have left his life," said Paul Omi.
Reached at her Iorida home, the landlady of the board house, Grace Pahlas, said she rented
three rooms to help make ends meet.

She recalled the day Stack moved in, and how Whitney helped the new tenant move boxes into
the house. "She was so happy and nice, Pahlas said. " thought, 'Finally, got a nice girl to live
in my house.'

Whitney was sent to prison eight years later after being convicted of killing Cecil Wallar on Oct.
10, 1982.

Whitney, 29 at the time of the killing, was picked out by Wallar's wife Elizabeth as the man who
stabbed her husband in the chest after breaking into their home at 560 Thornbill Drive. Whitney
had cut a hole in a screen door, reached in and unlocked the door of the ground-floor
apartment, according to a 1982 Chicago Tribune story.

Whitney ransacked the apartment after tying the hands of Wallar and his wife.

After taking $31 in cash and jewelry Whitney warned Wallar not to call police for five minutes
after he left. He walked to the door, but turned back and stabbed Wallar. Elizabeth Wallar, who
was in the couple's bedroom, heard her husband scream, "'m stabbed," then rushed to him.

She found her husband outside the patio door, stabbed once in the chest. He died two hours
later. A knife was found in grass 10 and 20 feet away.

Whitney was arrested in a Carol Stream restaurant early the following day after the attacker's
description was sent to local taverns and restaurants.

The couple had recently celebrated their 50 year wedding anniversary. He left behind five
children, 14 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Whitney was due to be paroled from state prison in October 2012 for the Wallar murder. He had
been convicted of armed robbery, burglary, home invasion and murder.




































RCBC manager is bank massacre's 10th victim
By Thea Alberto, Nikko Dizon, DJ Yap, Nia Catherine Calleja
NQURER.net, Southern Luzon Bureau, Philippine Daily nquirer
First Posted 02:40:00 05/19/2008

Filed Under: Robbery, theft
CALAMBA CTY?A bank manager who could have
provided police with information on the robbers
behind the massacre of nine people in the
Cabuyao, Laguna, branch of Rizal Commercial
Banking Corp. (RCBC) died Sunday from his head
wound at a hospital.
sagani Pastor, a manager at the RCBC branch,
had been in critical condition for two days following
one of the bloodiest bank robberies in the
country?s history that had left nine people dead.
The attack appalled Malacaang, the banking
community and the public.
Pastor?s death coincided with the announcement of Philippine National Police Director General
Avelino Razon Jr. that he had relieved Supt. Moises Pagaduan as police chief of Cabuyao.
Pagaduan has been reassigned to the headquarters of Police Regional Office 4A here, a PNP
statement said.
Senior Supt. Felipe Rojas Jr., Laguna police director, said the investigation would continue
without Pastor. ?There is no perfect crime. Surely, we will find some leads,? he told the
Philippine Daily nquirer (parent company of NQURER.net).
"We will check Pagaduan's actions before and after the robbery and killing occurred," he said.
Whatever Pastor knew about the murderous rampage at the bank would go with him to the
grave. He was declared dead by doctors at St. James Hospital in Laguna at around 10:30 a.m.
on Sunday.
For his widow, Loreta Chaloy Pastor, her 55-year-old husband?s death was his way of
protecting his family from harm.
?f he lived to tell what he knew, his family would have been at risk. Maybe this was his way of
protecting us,? Loreta said in an interview at La Funeraria Paz in Paraaque City.
Pastor had been shot in the temple.
Loreta said Pastor never got the chance to talk to anyone in the last hours of his life.
?We couldn?t talk to him at all. His eyes were closed the whole time,? she said.
The waiting was agony, their third child, 19-year-old Francis Patrick said.
On Thursday, Pastor will be cremated at the funeral home per his wish, his widow told the
nquirer.
Their daughter, 26-year-old Lesley Anne, said Pastor did not want his family to have to spend
for a memorial lot.
Loreta, who also once held a position at Bank of the Philippine slands, said her husband?s job
as ?relationship manager for corporate banking? of the Cabuyao branch often caused her
distress because of the possibility of a robbery.
?We always told him: ?Don?t fight if the bank gets robbed. t?s not your money anyway.? He?d
reply: ?Of course, of course,?? she said.
There was still no official word on how much money the robbers stole. But television news
reports quoting bank officials said the amount could have been between P12 million and P15
million.
Pastor may have been a witness to the killing of his eight co-employees and one client.



China executes iIipinos for drug trafficking
Three Filipinos found guilty of drug
trafficking have been executed in China, the
Philippine vice president has said.
" just want to inform you that our three
compatriots have been executed," Jejomar Binay
said on Wednesday, citing information from the
Philippine foreign affairs ministry.
Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, 32, and Ramon Credo,
42, met their families for the last time early on
Wednesday before they were put to death by
lethal injection in Xiamen, said Philippine Consul
Noel Novicio.
Elizabeth Batain, 38, was allowed to meet with her relatives hours ahead of her execution in
Shenzhen, Novicio said.
The three were not aware they would be executed on Wednesday although their sentences
were pronounced early in the day, Novicio said.
China normally does not announce executions. t is the first time that Filipino nationals have
been executed in China.
'No mercy'
"They already gave us (her) things. t's too much, they gave us only one hour (with her). They
have no mercy,'' Ordinario-Villanueva's sister, Maylene Ordinario, said in a text message from
Xiamen to her family in the Philippines.
She said that her sister was blessed by a priest and "she said she wants to be forgiven for all
her sins but she insisted that she was a victim.''
"She asked us to take care of her children, to take care of each other and to help one another.
have not accepted what will happen. We are forcing ourselves to accept it but can't,'' she told
Manila radio station DZBB.
The three were arrested separately in 2008 carrying packages containing at least 3.6 kilograms
of heroin. They were convicted and sentenced in 2009.
n its appeals for clemency, which included three letters by Benigno Aquino , the Filipino
president, to his Chinese counterpart and a February visit to Beijing by the vice president that
prompted China to postpone the
executions by a month, the government said it was able to prove that a drug syndicate took
advantage of the Filipinos.
t said that Philippine authorities succeeded in identifying and arresting some members of the
syndicate.
Amnesty nternational says China is the world's biggest executioner, with thousands of convicts
killed every year.
The Philippines has abolished the death penalty.











ostage taking @ Quirino Grandstand - August 23, 2010
nterior chief 'very sorry'
By DJ Yap, Marlon Ramos, Jeannette Andrade, Tetch Torres
NQURER.net, Philippine Daily nquirer
First Posted 19:52:00 08/23/2010


Filed Under: Police, hostage taking, Grandstand
Hostage,Security (general)
MANLA, Philippines ? (UPDATE 6) t?s over.
The hostage crisis that gripped the world for at
least 10 hours Monday ended with at least three
people killed, including the hostage-taker, and
17 survivors, according to reports culled by
NQURER.net.
The body of dismissed Senior nspector Rolando
Mendoza was recovered inside the tourist bus
that he took over in Manila about 9 a.m. He was
taken to Ospital ng Maynila. Also taken to the
same hospital were seven of the hostages, five of who are alive and two dead.
Five ? one in critical condition and one dead ? are at the Manila Doctors? Hospital while one
confirmed dead is at San Juan De Dios.
Mendoza who was charged with drug-related offenses, took over the bus with 22 Chinese
nationals and three Filipinos and demanded his reinstatement into the force.
Aside from Mendoza, two of the hostages were also killed although Metro Manila Police Director
Leocadio Santiago in an interview with CNN refused to confirm this.
Santiago said there were 17 survivors ? nine having been released by Mendoza earlier on
Monday and eight walking off after the police had secured the bus.
Reporters at the scene saw five hostages come out alive, one was unconscious and three were
dead, including Mendoza.
n a separate press interview, Superintendent Nelson Yabut who was part of the 30-man assault
team said they were initially unable to enter the bus because Mendoza had the hostages lined-
up and leaning on the bus windows.
?He [Mendoza] used them as a shield,? Yabut told reporters. He added that they also had to
pull back during the downpour.
Yabut said Mendoza was standing at the back of the bus and ran towards the front after seeing
members if the assault team trying to enter through the rear.
?Parang tatakas [t looked like he was attempting to escape],? Yabut added.
A sniper opened fire at Mendoza who was hit on the right temple, Yabut said.
Before this, Yabut said Mendoza also fired back at the assault team and hit a policeman on the
head although he survived the attack.
Meanwhile, nterior Secretary Jesse Robredo went to the crime scene but withheld judgment on
how the hostage crisis was handled and resolved.

"The government is very sorry that the hostage-taking ended like this," Robredo said. He said
the government has been "communicating with the representatives of the Chinese government"
on the hostage crisis.

Robredo said President Benigno Aquino was constantly apprised of the situation.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the President has met with police, officials from
the Department of nterior and Local Government, and Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim.
The law enforcers broke the windows and tried to enter the door of the stalled bus but were
stopped by gunshots coming from inside the bus, GMA Network footage showed.
Bursts of gunfire were heard from inside as lawmen went to the backdoor to force it open in the
hope of seizing Mendoza and rescuing his hostages.
A bystander, identified as a 10-year-old boy, was hurt following the gunshots and was brought
to the hospital for treatment, according to the television report.
A police car moved closer while members of the raiding team continued to break into the back
of the vehicle, video showed.
Ambulances also surrounded the bus.
Earlier on Monday, the bus driver, identified as Alberto Lubang, 38, was able to escape despite
being handcuffed to the wheel. He told police that some of the hostages were killed by
Mendoza.
n an interview, Aida Beltejar of the Philippine National Red Cross said Lubang told her that
some of the passengers were killed but did not give an exact number.
She added that Lubang was in a state of trauma and became partly deaf due to the loud
gunshot sounds.
Quoting Lubang, Beltejar said that the driver pleaded several times for Mendoza to free him,
adding the policeman acceded because he was Filipino.
Mendoza was thought to have fired warning shots anew as he saw his brother, Senior Police
Officer 2 Gregorio Mendoza and a young man said to be Rolando?s son, being hauled away by
police.

Superintendent ke Gutierrez of the Manila police said SPO2 Mendoza was arrested for bringing
a gun to the hostage scene without coordinating with the police.

At past 6 p.m., a single gunshot was heard coming from the bus. Reporters on the scene
learned that Mendoza fired a warning shot after rejecting a letter from the Office of the
Ombudsman that informed him that he could not be reinstated but nonetheless assured him that
his case would be reviewed.
The letter was delivered to on site by Manila Vice Mayor sko Moreno who met with officials of
the Office of the Ombudsman earlier Monday.
Moreno revealed in a telephone interview aired over the ABS-CBN News Channel that the
contents of the Ombudsman?s letter could help clear up things on the status of the appeal he
filed regarding his dismissal from the service.
"Kung ako sa kanya, pag nakita ko ang sulat na ito ay magliliwanag ang kaisipan ko (f were
him, would surely be enlightened after reading this letter)," Moreno said but refused to reveal
the contents of the letter.
Mendoza released nine hostages, leaving behind at least 17 others.
Eight of the nine freed hostages were identified as, photographer Danilo Medril, 64, tour guide
Rigor Cruz, 73-year-old Lee See Que (Lee See Kyu in some reports), Tsang Yee Lai, 40, and
her children Fu Chang Yin, 4, Fu Chak Yin, 10, and family friend Wong Ching Nat, 12, Diana
Chan. A woman who was also released at around 10:30 a.m. was not identified.
A national police statement said at least 22 tourists from Hong Kong were on board the bus.
The statement said that, aside from the driver, they were believed to be the only people aboard
the bus. Earlier reports said that aside from the 22 Chinese nationals, three Filipinos were on
board the bus.
Broadcaster Erwin Tulfo arrived at the Quirino Grandstand at around 3:45 p.m. on Monday to
help in negotiations.
Tulfo entered the cordoned area after Mendoza posted another message on the bus that said,
"Media now."
Tulfo was briefed by the police about the situation.
Mendoza posted the "Media now" message some 30 minutes after 3 p.m., the hour by which
police negotiators and media were expecting something to happen following a message from
Mendoza that stated "Big deal will start after 3 p.m. today."
Earlier in the day, Mendoza posted the message: "Big mistake to correct a big wrong decision.
t was not clear what the armalite-wielding hostage-taker exactly meant by these messages, as
police negotiators continued to work to convince Mendoza to let the hostages go.
Negotiators had hooked up a phone line to the bus to facilitate negotiations with Mendoza.
As of late Monday afternoon, the bus? gasoline supply had been replenished at least two times.
Superintendent Orlando Yebra and Chief nspector Romeo Salvador took the lead in the
negotiations with the hostage-taker.
Background information obtained by the Philippine Daily nquirer on Mendoza showed he has
been facing charges for manhandling a suspect before the Office of the Ombudsman.
According to records in Camp Crame, Mendoza was dismissed by the Office of the
Ombudsman early in January together with four other policemen
Mendoza was relieved from his post as chief of the Mobile Patrol Unit in 2008 for his alleged
involvement in drug-related crimes and extortion, and was demanding to be reinstated, police
said.
Mendoza, who has reaped awards for his work in the police service, was protesting his
dismissal early this year for allegedly forcing a hotel chef to swallow shabu (methamphetamine
hydrochloride) and for allegedly attempting to extort P20,000 from him during interrogation.
Mendoza has denied the charges and has filed an appeal with the Ombudsman.
Negotiators have hooked up a phone line to the bus to facilitate negotiations with Mendoza who
wanted to be reinstated into the police service.
Superintendent Orlando Yebra and Chief nspector Romeo Salvador took the lead in the
negotiations.
Mendoza passed messages to police negotiators through pieces of paper he posted on the
windshield and doors of the bus that was parked in front of a grandstand at Rizal Park, a
popular tourist destination just several blocks from the police headquarters.
The hostage-taking came hours after a South Korean man was killed in a separate attack by
gunmen elsewhere in Manila. Police said the incidents were not related.
Tourism Secretary Alberto Lim said that the bus was operated by a Hong Thai, a Hong Kong-
based travel agency.
The national police statement confirming the tourists were from Hong Kong corrected earlier
statements by police that they were South Koreans.
The incident brought back memories of a similar hostage taking in 2007, when a troubled civil
engineer armed with a grenade took over a bus and took hostage 30 kindergarten students but
freed them after a 10-hour standoff with police. Maila Ager, INQUIRER.net; Alcuin Papa,
Cathy Yamsuan, Philippine Daily Inquirer; Agence France-Presse





















BARON GEISLER EXTENDING STAY AT REAB CENTER

MANLA, Philippines Actor Baron Geisler is still in
rehabilitation for alcohol dependency even after
already completing the recommended 3 months stay.
Geisler said the decision to stay longer in the facility
is voIuntary as he needs to learn more things inside.
Geisler explained that 3 months is not enough for him
to learn things especially about himself.
The actor, however, admitted that he misses show
business but he stressed that he will be back in the
grind as soon as he finishes his 6 months stay in rehabiIitation.
GeisIer entered a rehabilitation facility in January after being accused of touching actress
Cherry Pie Picache inappropriately while shooting a scene for ABS-CBN's "Noah."
He was reportedly drunk when the incident occurred.






























The Death of Kurt Cobain - Suicide or Murder?

t was a Friday, April 8th, 1994, and after a long
week at work was sitting down to watch some TV
and opened the TV Guide. had listened intently to
the tragic news all day about Kurt, and was really
surprised when sat down and saw the information
shown in the photo below. showed it to my
girlfriend and she agreed we should keep it.
On the day the body of Kurt Cobain was found, this
was the TV guide from the Madison, Wisconsin daily
papers weekly TV guide (photos below). This was a
nationally syndicated show in its first season, airing this particular episode for its first time ever
and so it was the same for virtually every city in the United States that night. saw this and was
so struck by how odd it was that saved the entire TV guide for 4 years, which was when first
heard that Kurt may have been murdered. located the TV guide and took pictures of it. first
published this on my website in April, 1997.
t all began for me the day Kurt was found and saw the TV Guide, and that same night with 5
o'clock news reports that it was a confirmed suicide, suggesting a serious rush to
judgment. Kurt's daughter only has one parent left, and it is important that she know for certain
that her mother was not involved if in fact she was not. t will be terrible for their daughter to
grow up with any doubts about her only surviving parent, but it is terrible for a young girl to grow
up believing her Dad bailed out on her if in fact he did not. You can blame Courtney Love's
bizarre behavior in recent years on her guilty conscience, but also consider it could be out of
extreme grief and devastation over being accused of killing her husband and the father of their
child. Being falsely accused is a painful thing. t has been widely reported and confirmed that
Courtney Love's own step dad believes she was involved in Kurt's death, which causes
everyone to wonder a little. But have met some crazy parents in my life.
Kurt Cobain was an amazing artist and deserves that all of the truth be brought out once and for
all. A lot of people saw Kurt Cobain and may have perceived him as somewhat of a Pied Piper
of youth leading them towards drug use, heroin in particular. f Courtney Love is completely
innocent, she should be spearheading the re-opening of the case, for their daughter if nothing
else. Kurt Cobain was extremely important to millions of people. An investigation needs to be
done, for the sake of Frances Bean Cobain, for Courtney Love, for the families of the 68 people
who committed suicide after Kurt was found dead, and for the literally millions of fans of this
amazing artist. n the relatively near future will attempt to consolidate all of the sites which
have a petition to re-open Kurt's case into a single site with some corporate sponsorship or
something to insure that it stays up, is the only list being done and that it is presented every
year until it is done.



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Baldos, Cesjoy C. Mrs. Jennifer S. Ulitin
ABComm 21A1 September 20, 2011