Palace guards off the hook

From the Manila Standard Today (Jun1): Palace guards off the hook

An auto shop owner has withdrawn robbery charges filed against two members of the Presidential Security Group with the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office.

Sr. Supt. Eleazar Matta, Quezon City Police District’s Station 5 director, confirmed the lack of interest of Richard Tubig, owner of Streamline Auto Salon and Detailing Shop located in Barangay Lagro, Novaliches, to pursue the robbery suit against Corporal Bobby Ates, 25, of 830 South Nagtahan, Pandacan, Manila, and Sgt. Marvin Gaton, 31, of 50 Kaysakat St., San Jose, Antipolo City, Rizal.

“Tubig had filed a motion of desistance, prompting the prosecutor’s office to drop the suit,” he told the Manila Standard.

“There is no robbery suit against Ates and Gaton.”

But Ates is facing other criminal charges filed before two different courts.

He was charged for illegal possession of firearm, or violation of Presidential Decree 1866 as amended by RAt 8294 before Judge Snooky Maria Ana Bareno- Saguyo of the Quezon City Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 34.

Second assistant city prosecutor Rogelio Velasco, chief of the inquest division, approved the recommendation of ACP Nilda Ordoño to indict Ates.

Ates, who failed to present a permit to carry a .9mm HK USP Compaq, posted a P60,000 bail with Branch 34.

He was also slapped with violation of the Commission on Elections’ gun ban before Branch 88 Judge Rosanna Romero-Maglaya of the regional trial court over his failure to show a clearance exempting him from the Comelec’s restriction.

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