Police official, cop facing falsification  unjust vexation raps

A policeman who has been dismissed from service has filed criminal complaints before the city prosecutor’s office against Regional Mobile Group-7 chief Jesus Gacquing and another policeman for alleged falsification of public documents and unjust vexation.

In his complaint, former policeman Marlon Sarmiento alleged that Gacquing and PO3 Andy Nonong used as evidence a falsified Special Power of Attorney that Sarmiento himself allegedly executed for money lender Joy Hernandez-Cañete to use to claim Sarmiento’s paycheck.

The paycheck was reportedly to pay for the money Sarmiento loaned from Cañete when he was still in active police service.

Gacquing and Nonong subsequently used as evidence the allegedly falsified Special Power of Attorney for estafa case Sarmiento had filed against them before the city prosecutor, provincial prosecutor and Office of the Ombudsman for the Military.

The case for estafa stemmed from Gacquing and Nonong’s supposed knowledge of Cañete allegedly collecting Sarmiento’s paycheck through the allegedly falsified Special Power of Attorney.

But Sarmiento said he never signed in the notarial register book and executed an  SPA before lawyer Pepito Suello in favor of Cañete as alleged by Gacquing and Nonong.

In fact, Sarmiento attached a certification from the Office of the Notarial Commission that the alleged SPA did not appear in their record. What allegedly appeared was a deed of extra-judicial partition of heirs in the document 301, Page 61 of Book 18 or 15 series of 2007. 

Sarmiento likewise alleged that Gacquing and Nonong subjected him to shame and ridicule for addressing him as an ex-policeman, thus, the case for unjust vexation.

In their counter-affidavits for the estafa complaint, Gacquing and Nonong said Sarmiento was already dismissed from service last year after going absent without official leave. The estafa complaint has already been dismissed by the city prosecutor. — Fred P. Languido/JMO