Six suspects were arrested Monday afternoon, April 7, after they attempted to ambush a BJMP transport vehicle (BTV) carrying a Chinese national Person Deprived of Liberty (PDL) in Parañaque City. The BJMP personnel retaliated, and with the help of the PNP Parañaque, the suspects were eventually captured.
The incident occurred around 12:20 p.m. along the service road beside Cavitex while the BJMP Transport Vehicle (BTV), was transporting 37-year-old PDL Hu Yang, back to the BJMP facility in Barangay La Huerta, Parañaque City after a court hearing in Makati RTC Branch 235.
Armed men aboard a black sedan and a Mitsubishi Xpander intercepted the BJMP transport vehicle and opened fire. The jail officers returned fire, hitting one of the suspect vehicles. The black sedan fled while the Mitsubishi Xpander (plate number NKM 2122) crashed into a tree at the Las Piñas–Parañaque Wetland Park. The suspects abandoned the vehicle and escaped on foot into the nearby mangrove forest. One of the BJMP personnel, JO2 Leif Joseph Talanquines, sustained a gunshot wound to the right shoulder and was immediately rushed to Ospital ng Parañaque, while the PDL was immediately returned to the jail facility.
The assailants fled toward the Wetland Park area but were quickly apprehended in a hot pursuit operation by Parañaque PNP SWAT, led by PCPT DENNIS B VELASCO.
Arrested at the scene were James Bales Lasam, 28; Jerome Pascua Salvador, 31; Jerry Calino Ecalde, 30; and John Paul Chua, 51—all Filipino nationals. Also taken into custody were Yang Yang Shin, 25, and Wang Hongjie, 25, both Chinese nationals.
Recovered from the suspects were a replica grenade, several U.S. dollar bills, a .357 Magnum revolver containing live ammunition and one fired cartridge case, as well as suspected illegal drugs and drug-related paraphernalia.
The BJMP and PNP are conducting a thorough and coordinated investigation to determine whether the attack was an ambush or a rescue attempt.
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