{"id":5308,"date":"2024-04-25T23:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2024-04-25T23:48:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:48:34","slug":"arrest-of-fugitive-bantag-just-a-matter-of-time-justice-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2024\/04\/25\/arrest-of-fugitive-bantag-just-a-matter-of-time-justice-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"ARREST OF FUGITIVE BANTAG JUST A MATTER OF TIME \u2013 JUSTICE EXEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>IT\u2019S a matter of time before fugitive ex-Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Gerald Bantag is arrested, a justice official said on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIyong kay Bantag, patuloy pa din po iyong manhunt ho natin \u2018no. We have a general idea already of his whereabouts so it\u2019s just a matter of time,\u201d Justice Assistant Secretary Jose Dominic Clavano IV said in a press briefing in Malaca\u00f1ang.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAgain with these things, we just have to stay patient \u2013 these things don\u2019t happen overnight. The wheels of justice, they grind slowly but they grind very finely so we just have to stay patient,\u201d he stated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bantag was charged for masterminding the killing of broadcast journalist Percival \u201cPercy Lapid\u201d Mabasa. Mabasa was killed in October 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Former BuCor superintendent Ricardo Zulueta, 42,  who was also linked to the assassination of Mabasa, died due to heart failure on March 15, according to a report by the Bataan provincial police.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT&rsquo;S a matter of time before fugitive ex-Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Gerald Bantag is arrested, a justice official said on Thursday. &ldquo;Iyong kay Bantag,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308"}],"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=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions\/5313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}