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BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n POLICE are hunting down the seven members of a kidnap-for-ransom group who abducted a business caretaker and released him after paying ransom in Bataan.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Three of the suspects were positively identified by the victim from the police rogues gallery, according to a report to Police Regional Office 3 director Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The three were Jefferson Quiliza alias “Jean Corona\/Jeff,” Romel Alvarez alias “Taba,” and Rodney Dominguez.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Four other members of the kidnap-for-ransom group are still unidentified.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Investigation showed victim Julito Baja, 36, of Bgy. Gugo, Samal, Bataan, was manning the business establishment of his sister-in-law on Roman Highway, Bgy. Gugo, Samal when seven men on a white van with plate no. NEU 8577arrived, forcibly dragged him to the waiting vehicle and transported him to an undisclosed location.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The suspects later demanded P50,000 ransom from the owner of the establishment.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Upon payment of the ransom, the victim was released unharmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Baja, who later reported the incident to the Samal police, positively identified the three suspects from the police rogues gallery.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Samal police said the suspects were also involved in previous robbery cases in the province. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY KEVIN GALANG POLICE are hunting down the seven members of a kidnap-for-ransom group who abducted a business caretaker and released him after paying ransom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10618,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions\/10618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}