Police probers file case vs Baldomero slay suspects
Police investigators have filed charges against the primary suspect in the killing of militant leader Fernando Baldomero before the Aklan Provincial Prosecutor’s Office yesterday.
Charged was Dindo Lovon Ancero, 35, a resident of Bogo City, Cebu, along with several John Does.
Chief Supt. Samuel Pagdilao Jr., police regional director, said the Special Investigation Task Group Baldomero delayed the filing of the case in deference to the request of Baldomero’s widow.
Ancero was identified as the primary suspect on July 16.
The Task Group was already prepared to file the charges on July 19 but the filing was deferred because Baldomero’s wife, Christine Beatrice, asked police investigators to give her lawyer ample time to review the testimonies of witnesses, her sworn statement, and that of her son, who was the eyewitness, to ensure there are no loopholes in the case.
After two weeks, Baldomero’s widow agreed to let the investigators file the murder case.
“Ancero was positively identified by the 12-year-old son of Badomero in the police rogue gallery,” Pagdilao said.
Baldomero, 61, a Sangguniang Bayan member of Lezo town in Aklan, was shot to death by Ancero around 6:30 a.m. on July 5 in front of his house in Brgy. Estancia, Kalibo, Aklan.
Christine Beatrice also identified Ancero, whom she former recognized as the one she had seen at the vicinity of their place a day before her husband’s murder.
In her sworn statement, Baldomero’s widow said that a week before the killing, she saw a man wearing sunglasses and a woman wearing turban standing across their rented house in Aklan.
This established the suspicion that the suspects have been watching the movements of the victim before he was gunned down.
Another witness, a tricycle driver from Kalibo town, said that few days before the murder of Baldomero, he saw a man wearing a scarf in a black motorcycle three times at the waiting shed along the national highway at the Provincial Capitol. The description of the man and the motorcycle matched that of the suspect and the motorcycle used in the killing.
