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SC upholds indictment of mayor, cops over threats, detention of 2016 mayoralty bet

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Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News

MANILA - The Supreme Court en banc on Tuesday dismissed the petition filed by an incumbent mayor, police officers and several others questioning the Commission on Election’s (Comelec) decision to indict them for election offenses committed during the 2016 elections.SC spokesperson Maria Victoria Gleo Guerra said the petitioners failed to show that the Comelec gravely abused its discretion in issuing minute resolutions which found probable cause to indict them for unauthorized carrying of firearms and for using threats and intimidation against Tampilisan, Zamboanga del Norte mayoralty candidate Alson Chan.Chan ran under the Nacionalista and Alliance for Peace and Progress parties in 2016 against then incumbent mayor Angeles Carloto II of the Liberal Party, one of the petitioners in the SC petition.According to the media briefer released by the SC, Chan claimed that during the election campaign, shots were fired at his election headquarters. Men in fatigue uniform also arrested him and detained him at the PNP Provincial Office, preventing him from campaigning.Chan lost to Carloto in the 2016 polls but he filed the complaint against Carloto and others with the Comelec.Along with Carloto, the Comelec also indicted Chief Insp. Roldan Molate, PO1 Lenz Jasser Rada Fabillar, PSI Alexis Bahunsua, PO2 Jimmy Panganiban, PO3 Jeffrey Natividad, PO1 Ryan Quilaton, PO2 Eliaquim Taman, PO1 Katherine Benedicto, Generico Jauculan, Victory Gegrimosa, Marlou Buenafe, Richard Halupay, Marlon Andes, Pablo Benavides, Jr., Rolando Parami, Federico Rapal, Jr., Sally Rejas, and Bernandita Gulagula.In upholding the indictment, the SC en banc said the assertions of Carloto and company are matters of defense which can be properly threshed out in a full-blown trial.The hight court&#x27;s public information office did not provide a copy of the resolution and the petition. No further details were also given.Chan and Carloto had previously figured in a legal battle over the 2013 mayoral race. Chan protested and won an electoral protest but Carloto locked himself up at the municipal hall in February 2015.Chan failed to take office after the Comelec issued a status quo ante order.

The Supreme Court en banc on Tuesday dismissed the petition filed by an incumbent mayor, police officers and several others questioning the Commission on Election’s (Comelec) decision to indict them for election offenses committed during the 2016 elections.

The Supreme Court en banc on Tuesday dismissed the petition filed by an incumbent mayor, police officers and several others questioning the Commission on Election’s (Comelec) decision to indict them for election offenses committed during the 2016 elections.

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SC upholds indictment of mayor, cops over threats, detention of 2016 mayoralty bet

Mike Navallo,

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Published Nov 13, 2018 06:21 PM PHT

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