The mother of jailed suspected drug lord Alvaro “Barok” Alvaro covers her face after leaving the Danao City police precinct. She will face a charge of grave threats for supposedly claiming that she can order her son to kill the police that shot down her son Medz. (CDN PHOTO/TONEE DESPOJO)
SIM card found in his bed; police say he may have ordered hit on Danao City precinct
A SIM (subscriber identity module) card was found under the pillow of the bed of suspected drug lord Alvaro “Barok” Alvaro inside his cell at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC).
Senior Insp. Alejandro Batobalonos, chief of the Danao City police precinct, said he was in charge of looking into cell 118 where Barok is staying along with other inmates.
Batobalonos said the SIM card is evidence that he still maintains contact with his family even when inside the jail facility.
No other contraband and even mobile phones were recovered in the cell where he is staying.
“Bisan ug walay kwarta, makapalit man gani. Siya na ba (Even those who have no money, can afford to buy. He can too),” the police chief told Cebu Daily News in a phone interview.
Batobalonos said this validates their suspicion that he may have ordered the strafing at the Danao police precinct last Friday dawn.
But he said the “Greyhound Operation” they conducted at CPDRC may have been tipped off to the inmates since they only recovered a small volume of contraband.
He said it is also possible that Barok just borrowed a mobile phone from another inmate so he could make a call to his family.
Last Friday, Batobalonos said one of his policemen overheard the cell phone conversation between Barok and his mother.
Barok was informed of the death of his younger brother, Medz, in a shootout with Danao policemen at 10 p.m. last Thursday.
The mother went to the police precinct and threatened the policemen in Danao City that she could order her son to kill all of them.
Due to her alleged threat and the strafing that happened afterward, Batobalonos said they are filing a charge of grave threats against Emma Alvaro at the Danao City Prosecutor’s Office tomorrow.