Northern Mindanao || X Police: Bigcas is armed, dangerous
Police: Bigcas is armed, dangerous
Thursday, 23 February 2012 00:00
CAGAYAN de Oro police director Gerardo Rosales yesterday called Davao shooting suspect Lynard Allan Bigcas "armed and dangerous" even as he ordered local police units to watch out for the man who became known last year due to his alleged involvement in smuggling operations. Bigcas is being sought after in Davao for allegedly shooting lawyer Roberto Mauro Miguel Palma Gil, the director of the Housing Land Use Regulatory Board in Region 11, last Sunday. Senior Supt. Rosales said the Cagayan de Oro police has been alerted and officers were given orders to see if Bigcas has returned to the city. Bigcas, who hails from neighboring Talakag town in Bukidnon, had stayed in a house in Barangay Kauswagan that was raided by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) last year. Authorities had also raided his home in Talakag. The twin raids resulted in the seizure of many expensive Cars and motorcycles suspected to have been smuggled into the country.
Rosales said police precinct commanders were also told to step up intelligence gathering operations in the hope of arresting Bigcas. The Davao police identified Bigcas as the primary suspect in the shooting of Palma Gil through a closed circuit television camera recording. Video clips shown on national television showed a man who resembled Bigcas attacking with a gun the lawyer-son of former Davao Oriental governor Elena Palma Gil. Rosales said police officers here were told to take extra-care because Bigcas is considered "armed and dangerous." Members of a special police unit were fielded to look for Bigcas, he said. Rosales said other law enforcement groups were doing the same thing.
Davao City Police Office director Ronald dela Rosa earlier , said a Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) camera positively identified Bigcas, who is scalled on Bigcas to surrender and face the charges.
Investigators have theorized that the shooting was a result of a "love triangle." They said Bigcas was with his alleged girlfriend, lawyer Aimee Salisi. Police said Salisi is a former girlfriend of Palma Gil. Bigcas was the subject of an investigation that reached to the Lower House last year after agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation backed the NBI in raiding Bigcas's houses in Poblacion, Talakag, Bukidnon, and Cagayan de Oro. The May 2011 raids resulted in the confiscation of at least 25 expensive vehicles and 15 motorcycles. Among the motorcycles was a US$80- thousand Martin Brothers that was alleged stolen from Hollywood scriptwriter Skip Woods in Texas. WITH REPORTS FROM PNA
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