Four policemen from Bacolod City were served arrest warrants for arbitrary detention issued by Municipal Trial Courts in Cities Branch 5 Judge Remegio Rojo yesterday and three of them have posted bails at the Hall of Justice.
Police Officers 2 Glenn Montaño, Ronelo Molato and Clint William Ferrer, who claimed that the charges were purely harassment, settled their bail of P12,000 each.
Meanwhile, City Police Office Operations chief, Senior Insp. Jeffrey Attunaga, who was also included in the arrest warrant, declined to comment on the case when contacted by the DAILY STAR but said he will post bail today.
Court records show that the case was filed against the policemen by a certain Juan Bais, an employee of a fast craft company at the Bacolod Real Estate Development Corporation Port about two years ago. Bais claimed that the policemen detained him at Police Station 2 on June 28, 2010 for no justifiable reason.
Montaño, assigned at Police Station 1, narrated that he had just arrived from Iloilo when he decided to park his motorcycle at the BREDCO port and seek shelter from the rain in a canopy, when Bais confronted him and told him to leave.
He said the confrontation led to a verbal spat prompting him to ask for assistance from Police Station 2 where Attuanaga, Ferrer and Molato, used to be assigned.
Montaño added that Ferrer and Molato, together with Police Officer 2 Randy Abello arrived at BREDCO port and apprehended Bais.
Montaño, however, did not pursue any case after they reached a settlement, only to learn that Bais had filed charges against them.
The policemen also said that Bais had filed string of administrative cases against them in different government agencies, but the one he filed before the office of the Visayas Ombudsman was dismissed.*APN back
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