No Bail for Bohol Robbery Group

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By KIT BAGAIPO
The Bohol Chronicle

The arrested members of the notorious Meloy Garcia Robbery Group could not apply for bail.
This was the assurance given by police provincial director SSupt. Edgardo Ingking, in an interview with the Chronicle who allayed public fears that anyone of the six now in police custody may be temporarily granted liberty.

Ingking’s assurance was backed by Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Bohol president Atty. Isabelo Sales Jr. in a separate interview with the Chronicle.

Sales said robbery with homicide is a non-bailable crime when the evidence is strong against the accused.
One of the group’s alleged members, Rodolfo “Dopong” Atega, who was captured by Cebu City police in San Miguel town was granted bail Tuesday but was felled by assassins a few minutes after he was released from detention. He was on his way to the Cebu City pier to take a homebound ferry.

Casimiro “Meloy” Garcia, Gelvin Nuez, Arsenio Polo, Gerardo Fuentes, Cresencio Reguya and Sofronio Remoreras were all charged with robbery with homicide at the City Prosecutors Office.

Except for Reguya who is recovering at the Gov. Gallares Regional Hospital, the suspects are detained at the City PNP lock-up jail.

Doctors handling Reguya say that he may be paralyzed for the rest of his life.