NCRPO wants Jimenez brought to Crame

MANILA, Philippines - The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) sought yesterday the transfer of murder victim Ruby Rose Barrameda-Jimenez’s father-in-law to the police hospital in Camp Crame.

The NCRPO’s reaction came amid reports that lawyer Manuel Jimenez Jr., suspected of masterminding Ruby Rose’s killing, has been confined to a hospital in Rizal province owned by the relatives of his common-law wife since he surrendered to the Angono police Friday after learning that Malabon Regional Trial Court Judge Hector Almeyda issued an arrest warrant against him.

“We don’t want Mr. Jimenez to put one over us. So we are seeking his transfer to the Health Service of the PNP (Philippine National Police) to determine if he really is sick,” NCRPO chief Director Roberto Rosales said in an interview.

Rosales is coordinating with the Angono police to bring Jimenez to the Camp Crame hospital for a thorough medical examination.

“If Mr. Jimenez is really sick then he must be confined at the Camp Crame hospital so his security would not be compromised,” said Rosales.

While Jimenez is under police custody, his younger brother, fishing magnate Lope Jimenez and three other suspects remain at large and are the subjects of a massive manhunt by 12 tracker teams of the NCRPO.

One of the suspects, Manuel Montero, confessed to participating in Ruby Rose’s murder and led police last June 10 to a body fished out of the seawaters off Navotas. The body had been stuffed into a drum, encased in cement, and put in a steel case.