Police nabs racketeer
SAN FABIAN–A man with a long history of racketeering crimes was finally nabbed by the police during an entrapment operation.
Danilo De Vera, 46, widower and resident of Barangay Guiguilonen, Mangaldan is now in jail and facing charges of impersonation and extortion, according to Chief Inspector Chito Esmenda, San Fabian’s police chief.
Among De Vera’s victims are a former mayor of San Fabian, some police chiefs, a barangay chairman, and a judge.
Esmenda told The PUNCH that he himself was targeted by De Vera when the suspect posed as Chief Superintendent Luizo Ticman, police regional director of Region 1, and tried to extort money from him and another police chief, Superintendent Fidel Drapeza of Binmaley, via text messages and phone calls.
In separate text messages two months ago, De Vera posing as Ticman, demanded P50,000 from Esmenda and Drapeza purportedly for a certain project.
The two police chiefs, recognizing the modus operandi by De Vera, set upan entrapment operation but were not initially successful.
De Vera was finally nabbed on February 10 after collecting money from retired Olongapo City regional trial court Judge Jaime Dojillo Sr. of Barangay Nibaliw West here.
De Vera, this time posing as a certain Father Roberto Magno, told the judge the money was for the construction or the Dagupan Parish Church.
Seized from De Vera were a cellular phone, several pieces of paper bearing the names of persons believed to be his would-be victims or previous victims and the marked money totaling P30,000.
De Vera has a pending swindling case filed by former San Fabian Mayor Romulo Magliba when he collected about P50,000 from persons visited by the mayor during his speaking engagements in the late 1990s.
Esmenda is calling on other victims of De Vera to file charges against him.#
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