CAMP GEN. PANTALEON GARCIA, IMUS, Cavite — At least five of the 23 detainees who escaped before dawn Sunday from the General Mariano Alvarez (GMA) municipal police jail remained at-large, the Cavite Police Provincial Office (PPO) reported on Monday, April 6.
The jailbreak occurred at 4 a.m. Sunday and that police teams reportedly recaptured 13 escapees at once and the five others later in the day.
Twenty of the 23 detainees in the jailbreak has pending drug cases and two with robbery cases and one with illegal gambling case.
The GMA police reported that the detainees bolted through a hole on the wall that they made. Recovered at the site were an electric fan rotor part and one 2X3, 26 inches-long wood that were believed used in holing the wall.
The Cavite PPO hierarchy ordered the immediate investigation of the jailbreak.
The duty custodial officer — Patrolman Ahman Mukaram Ambil — was reportedly disarmed by his superior and was placed on restricted custody.
Ambil was held for questioning in connection with the incident.
Initial police report showed that Ambil has called out the other jail duty personnel by shouting to go to the wall outside upon seeing a commotion in the cell and the detainees going out of the hole on the wall.
Ambil reportedly found the escape when he returned to the main lock-up door for the routine detainee accounting from perimeter inspection outside the jail area.
Ambil and the jail personnel were able to nab some fleeing detainees.
The PPO identified the still at-large as of 6 p.m. Sunday as Jonathan Layog Francisco, alias “Atan,” 32, a resident of Bulihan, Barangay Narra III, Silang, Cavite; Orlando Bernal Calingo, alias “Orlan,” of Barangay Pulido, GMA; Adrian Bautista Cabueña, alias “Jai,” of Maderan, GMA; Jerlon De la Cruz Salit, alias “Lonlon,” and Arjay Felisilda Montebon, 26, both of Pulido, GMA,
Two tracking teams composed of officers from the GMA police, 401st Maneuver Company Police Regional Office (PRO) IV-A Mobile Force Battalion, and Cavite PPO Mobile Patrol Unit are now hunting them down.
The same team recaptured in the pursuit operation the first 13 escapees then the five others in nearby Sitio Burol, Barangay Paliparan, Dasmariñas City, on Sunday afternoon.
The last one was nabbed by the team at Pasong Saging, Barangay De las Alas, GMA, at 6 p.m. Sunday. (Anthony Giron)