By the Bohol Chronicle
Three inmates of the Bohol District Jail managed to escape in the middle of their gardening activity while jail guards were holding a meeting at the detention center past 4 o'clock last Sunday afternoon.
Jail Warden Felixberto Jagorin Jr. identified the escapees as Cayo "Dodong" Olandria, Enrico Melencion and Julito Gamolo.
Jagorin issued a province-wide alert through PNP Prov'l Director Anthony Obenza who immediately issued the alarm to the 47 PNP stations in the province.
Jagorin immediately ordered a cordon around the borders of Cabawan District, but the trio managed to slip the team which conducted the manhunt. He is confident the three have not gone far yet and are just hiding in some caves in the vast land at the back of the jail compound.
Jagorin called on the public and the media to help monitor the presence of the jail watch for the three.
Meanwhile, a P50,000 reward was announced last Monday for whoever can give information that would lead to the arrest of the escapees.
Being members of the Batman gang, a group organized inside the jail, the three have tattoos on their buttocks.
Olandria, 31, who stands 5'7'' and weighs 55 kilos, have tattoos all over his body including his face with the mark 666 on his ear and forehead.
Olandria, a resident of Ubay, is facing charges of rape, and it is his third time to escape from jail- -once when he was still detained in Carmen municipal police lock-up jail before he was turned over to BDJ.
Jagorin said Olandria had been requesting to be transferred to Carmen, but authorities disapproved it.
Gamolo, stands 5'3" and weighs 57 kilos and hails from Dimiao, though he had been residing in barangay Ilijan, Inabanga with his live-in partner. He is facing charges of rape and robbery.
Gamolo has tattoos on his back, chest, right leg and ear. He also has a mole on the lower part of the forehead between his eyes.
Melencion, 20, a CAFGU member in his hometown in Buenavista, was still a minor when charged of murder. He has scar on his neck.
Jagorin said that the CCCTV camera showed that they wore sweatshirts to hide their tattoos.
He said three jail guards were absent that day, leaving the 3rd outpost unguarded.
The inmates might have noticed it, because they escaped between the 3rd and 5th outpost.
The 3rd outpost had been entrusted to the main sentinel.
Jagorin said that when he took over the then Bohol Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), he had advocated the therapeutic approach rather than the punitive.
Jagorin said that the three escapees when recaptured will be placed in an isolation cell inside the district jail.
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