FORMER Police Senior Superintendent Michael Ray Aquino declared his innocence about the 2000 murder of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito upon his arrival from the United States heavily escorted by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation.
THE U.S. Court of Appeals has found probable cause for former Police Officer Michael Ray Aquino to be extradited to the Philippines to stand trial for the Dacer-Corbito double-murder case. “Upon review of the record, we conclude that competent evidence supports the probable cause finding in this case,” according to a May 3 certified true copy of the court’s judgment affirming the ruling handed down by the District Court for New Jersey last Oct. 14.
FORMER Police Officer Michael Ray Aquino is expected to be extradited soon to the Philippines to face murder charges in connection with the November 2000 slaying of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver after a U.S. Court of Appeals denied this week his last-ditch petition for a rehearing.
By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
FORMER police officer Michael Ray Aquino has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to junk the Philippine government’s request that he be extradited for the murder of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and Dacer’s driver, Emmanuel Corbito.
SEN. Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday accused Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada of “betraying” his father, former President Joseph Estrada, so he and his mother could be acquitted of the plunder case filed against them. In his second privilege speech in two weeks, Lacson also accused Senator Estrada of demanding from a jueteng operator in
SEN. Panfilo Lacson revealed on Monday afternoon his bitter falling out with former President Joseph Estrada when he was the latter’s chief of the Philippine National Police over what he said was his refusal to let up on the campaign against jueteng, an illegal numbers game. In a privilege speech, Lacson said Estrada, who was
FORMER police Senior Superintendent Cezar Mancao has implicated former president Joseph Estrada and Sen. Panfilo Lacson in the November 2000 kidnap-murder of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported Friday. The Inquirer, quoting from Mancao’s Feb. 14, 2009 affidavit executed in Florida, also reported that Lacson ordered Mancao
IT was former police Senior Superintendent Michael Ray Aquino who gave the order to “get” publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer, who was kidnapped along with his driver Emmanuel Corbito on Nov. 24, 2000 and found dead days later. A four-page affidavit executed on March 1, 2007 by former police Senior Superintendent Cezar Mancao II, who will