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+ Follow JOEL SOMABONG Tag
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                    [Title] => Guard in LBP-Bogo robbery wants to be a state witness
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The security guard who is among those charged for the robbery at the Land Bank of the Philippines Bogo branch reaffirmed his intention to help the government in the prosecution of the case.


In yesterday's pre-trial conference, Henry Cuerda, through his lawyer, told the court that he is not presenting any witness for his defense and is admitting that he was part of the planning of the robbery.

Cuerda said he is applying to be the state witness against the other accused, Joel Somabong, Joseph Ancajas, Dindo Ancero. Efren Beladas and Isagani Chiko.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 388677 [Title] => Suspected robbery gang leader gets new counsel [Summary] => Suspected robbery gang leader Joel Somabong yesterday engaged the services of a new counsel appointed by the court for him following the withdrawal of his lawyer.

Regional Trial Court Judge Estella Alma Singco appointed lawyer Salvador Solima to be Somabong's new legal counsel because Somabong does not have a lawyer anymore.

Somabong's previous lawyer, Rameses Villagonzalo, earlier withdrew his services, claiming that his client had lost trust and confidence in him.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 330197 [Title] => LBP-Bogo robbery: Investigating panel clears van owner in bank heist [Summary] => The panel created to conduct preliminary investigation into the charges against three of the 11 accused in the robbery of the Bogo branch of the Land Bank of the Philippines cleared the owner of the van allegedly used as getaway vehicle for lack of evidence.

The three-man panel headed by assistant city prosecutor Fernando Gubalane dismissed the case against Ceferino Serbano because there was no direct evidence linking him to the case except for the use of the vehicle.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 318610 [Title] => Junnie junks allegations in the "Somabong" VCD [Summary] => Celestino "Junnie" Martinez, Jr. yesterday laughed off insinuations that it was his family being referred to as the boss, in a video compact disc, allegedly by robbery suspect Joel Somabong that ordered the bank robberies and the assassination plot against two officials in the province.

Junnie, in an interview over station dyLA, rejected as trash the existence of a VCD showing a man who introduced himself as Somabong and tagged a family of politicians as behind his life of illegal activities. He said he would get a copy but would throw it into the trash bin.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 298068 [Title] => Guv offers aid for manhunt of Land Bank rob suspects [Summary] => Governor Gwendolyn Garcia yesterday offered logistical support to the police for its continuing manhunt for seven more suspects, including the mastermind, of the Land Bank-Bogo robbery last August 2.

Should the police need it, Garcia said the provincial government is willing to provide financial assistance to them to ensure the arrest of the remaining suspects who have been reportedly sighted in Masbate province.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 297911 [Title] => Inter-agency linkages hoped to net robbers [Summary] => The Cebu Provincial Police Office is positive that with the coordination of the NBI and the Masbate Provincial Police Office the suspects of the Land Bank robbery in Bogo town who made off with P9,410,600 last August 2 will be arrested.

This as the CPPO, in a linkage with the NBI and the MPPO, reported of sightings of the suspects, most especially the five earlier identified and charged with robbery in band.

Charged last August 11 were Henry Cuerda, Joseph Ancajas, Joel Somabong, Ceferino Serbano, Dindo Ancero and six others.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 292737 [Title] => Motorcycle in bank rob recovered [Summary] => Police last night recovered in barangay Cogon, Bogo a motorcycle-the second getaway vehicle used in the P9.4-million Land Bank-Bogo robbery last August 2.

The motorcycle, without a plate number, was found in the house of a certain Henry Dy, identified as the father of Danny Dy who is the brother-in-law of Ceferino Serbano, one of the twelve robbery suspects. It was the second getaway vehicle the police had recovered, the first was the maroon Nissan Vanette (plate no. CLA-333) recovered from an abandoned building of the DPWH in Bogo last week.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 292203 [Title] => One of Land Bank rob suspects a PMA grad [Summary] => One of the 12 suspects, indicted for the P9.4-million Land Bank robbery, was a member of Batch 85 of the Philippine Military Academy, according to Provincial Special Operations Group chief Juanito Enguerra yesterday.

Enguerra confirmed that Ceferino Serbano was a classmate at the academy who, right after graduation, joined the Philippine Air Force. Serbano moved to the PNP in 1991 but went on AWOL in 1996. He is now engaged in construction business as owner of Philways Construction, based in Cavite.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) ) )
JOEL SOMABONG
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                    [Title] => Guard in LBP-Bogo robbery wants to be a state witness
                    [Summary] => 

The security guard who is among those charged for the robbery at the Land Bank of the Philippines Bogo branch reaffirmed his intention to help the government in the prosecution of the case.


In yesterday's pre-trial conference, Henry Cuerda, through his lawyer, told the court that he is not presenting any witness for his defense and is admitting that he was part of the planning of the robbery.

Cuerda said he is applying to be the state witness against the other accused, Joel Somabong, Joseph Ancajas, Dindo Ancero. Efren Beladas and Isagani Chiko.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 388677 [Title] => Suspected robbery gang leader gets new counsel [Summary] => Suspected robbery gang leader Joel Somabong yesterday engaged the services of a new counsel appointed by the court for him following the withdrawal of his lawyer.

Regional Trial Court Judge Estella Alma Singco appointed lawyer Salvador Solima to be Somabong's new legal counsel because Somabong does not have a lawyer anymore.

Somabong's previous lawyer, Rameses Villagonzalo, earlier withdrew his services, claiming that his client had lost trust and confidence in him.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 330197 [Title] => LBP-Bogo robbery: Investigating panel clears van owner in bank heist [Summary] => The panel created to conduct preliminary investigation into the charges against three of the 11 accused in the robbery of the Bogo branch of the Land Bank of the Philippines cleared the owner of the van allegedly used as getaway vehicle for lack of evidence.

The three-man panel headed by assistant city prosecutor Fernando Gubalane dismissed the case against Ceferino Serbano because there was no direct evidence linking him to the case except for the use of the vehicle.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 318610 [Title] => Junnie junks allegations in the "Somabong" VCD [Summary] => Celestino "Junnie" Martinez, Jr. yesterday laughed off insinuations that it was his family being referred to as the boss, in a video compact disc, allegedly by robbery suspect Joel Somabong that ordered the bank robberies and the assassination plot against two officials in the province.

Junnie, in an interview over station dyLA, rejected as trash the existence of a VCD showing a man who introduced himself as Somabong and tagged a family of politicians as behind his life of illegal activities. He said he would get a copy but would throw it into the trash bin.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 298068 [Title] => Guv offers aid for manhunt of Land Bank rob suspects [Summary] => Governor Gwendolyn Garcia yesterday offered logistical support to the police for its continuing manhunt for seven more suspects, including the mastermind, of the Land Bank-Bogo robbery last August 2.

Should the police need it, Garcia said the provincial government is willing to provide financial assistance to them to ensure the arrest of the remaining suspects who have been reportedly sighted in Masbate province.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 297911 [Title] => Inter-agency linkages hoped to net robbers [Summary] => The Cebu Provincial Police Office is positive that with the coordination of the NBI and the Masbate Provincial Police Office the suspects of the Land Bank robbery in Bogo town who made off with P9,410,600 last August 2 will be arrested.

This as the CPPO, in a linkage with the NBI and the MPPO, reported of sightings of the suspects, most especially the five earlier identified and charged with robbery in band.

Charged last August 11 were Henry Cuerda, Joseph Ancajas, Joel Somabong, Ceferino Serbano, Dindo Ancero and six others.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 292737 [Title] => Motorcycle in bank rob recovered [Summary] => Police last night recovered in barangay Cogon, Bogo a motorcycle-the second getaway vehicle used in the P9.4-million Land Bank-Bogo robbery last August 2.

The motorcycle, without a plate number, was found in the house of a certain Henry Dy, identified as the father of Danny Dy who is the brother-in-law of Ceferino Serbano, one of the twelve robbery suspects. It was the second getaway vehicle the police had recovered, the first was the maroon Nissan Vanette (plate no. CLA-333) recovered from an abandoned building of the DPWH in Bogo last week.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 292203 [Title] => One of Land Bank rob suspects a PMA grad [Summary] => One of the 12 suspects, indicted for the P9.4-million Land Bank robbery, was a member of Batch 85 of the Philippine Military Academy, according to Provincial Special Operations Group chief Juanito Enguerra yesterday.

Enguerra confirmed that Ceferino Serbano was a classmate at the academy who, right after graduation, joined the Philippine Air Force. Serbano moved to the PNP in 1991 but went on AWOL in 1996. He is now engaged in construction business as owner of Philways Construction, based in Cavite.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) ) )
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