BY GLAZYL MASCULINO
BACOLOD CITY – A jail warden in Negros Occidental was relieved from his post after two inmates escaped from the Negros Occidental District Jail (NODJ) in Bago City two weeks ago.
Relieved was Senior Inspector Norberto Miciano Jr. San Jose, Antique Chief Inspector Julius Cesar Chavez assumed his post effective Sept. 7.
Miciano was then transferred to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Negros Occidental as provincial administrator, while investigation on the jail break is ongoing.
Miciano said his relief was part of the jail’s standard operating procedure.
His relief came after Jimmy Sablon of Barangay Robles, La Castellana town, who was charged for frustrated murder, and Ramonito Ventura of Barangay Buenavista, Murcia town, who was charged for robbery, bolted the jail by cutting the steel bar of their respective dormitories on August 31.
The BJMP has offered a reward of P10,000 each for their arrest that led to the recapture of Ventura in Barangay Sta. Cruz, Murcia town four days later.
Miciano said Sablon is still at large and the BJMP has increased the reward money to P30,000 for his arrest.
He said the BJMP is also probing if there were lapses on the part of the five jail officers who were on duty when the incident happened. (Glazyl Masculino)
