3 Batangas escapees surrender

SAN JOSE, Batangas — After hiding for five days in Quezon City, three of the four inmates who bolted the police detention cell here surrendered last Friday night, the police said. 

Senior Superintendent Francisco Don Montenegro, Batangas police director, said the three escapees, brothers Ariel and Danny Macalipay and Sandy Placios, all residents of Barangay Banay-Banay here, hid in a relative’s house at Amparo Subdivision in Novaliches, Quezon City.

After five days, they sent a relative to inform their parents here about their desire to give themselves up.

Their parents immediately told Chief Inspector Francisco Ebreo, this town’s police chief, about their sons’ decision and Ebreo decided to fetch the three in Quezon City.

The fourth escapee, Edwin Mazo, who is facing rape charges, remains at large.

Ebreo said the four escaped last Sept. 18 by sewing the steel bars of their cell using a guitar string.

The Macalipay brothers and Placios are facing robbery charges. — Arnell Ozaeta