A Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) jail guard and a former person deprived of liberty (PDL) have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the killing of two persons during a kidnapping and robbery incident in Quezon City last June, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said on Friday, July 26.
NBI Director Jaime B. Santiago presented the two arrested persons who were identified as Corrections Officer 1 Pio Jonathan Aniero Eulalio and former PDL Raymond David Reyes.
Santiago said Eulalio and Reyes were arrested by the bureau’s operatives led by NBI Homicide Division (NBI-HD) last July 12 and July 11, respectively, in Cavite.
He said the two are suspects in the killings of Christian Razon Ortega and his mother Gloria Razon Ortega.
After their arrest, they were charged before the Department of Justice (DOJ) with robbery with homicide, and kidnapping for ransom with homicide, among charges.
With the arrest of Eulalio and Reyes, the NBI said the two suspects identified as their employer Vergel Burata Olanda who had been arrested last July 12 and now in the custody of the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group (PNP-AKG).
The NBI said the suspects ambushed the victims who were aboard a white L300 van in Quezon City on June 10.
Christian was gunned down while his mother was kidnapped by the suspects who also took P100,000 in cash, it said.
It also said that the suspects later demanded from the family a P5 million ransom for the release of Gloria who was eventually killed and found dumped in a ravine beside a dump site in Bay town, Laguna last July 12.