Berly Tudtud, the security guard accused in the New Year’s Eve robbery and fatal shooting of three Fairbank workers in Daanbantayan town, surrendered yesterday morning after escaping from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology-run district prison in Medellin last May 1.
His fellow detainee, Roger Lagahit, a suspect in an attempted murder case and whom Tudtud claimed was the one who broached the idea of bolting from jail, has yet to be recaptured.
Based on what he told Chief Inspector German Mallare, Bogo Police Station chief, Tudtud hid in sugarcane farms after his escape last Thursday morning, relying on sugarcane for sustenance.
Moving only during the night through the sugarcane plantations, he aimed for his family’s home in barangay Polambato, Bogo City, evading authorities spread along roads and streets.
After three days and two nights, Tudtud arrived at the house of his sister, Luvimyn, at 7 p.m. last Saturday, May 3. It was Luvimyn and the rest of the family who persuaded Tudtud to turn himself in.
Yesterday morning, Luvimyn approached their policeman-neighbor, PO1 Loliboy Terana of the Provincial Public Safety Company. Terana was already on duty at the Borbon Police Station so he was called by his wife about the matter.
Terana rushed back to Bogo and fetched Tudtud from an abandoned warehouse in the hacienda where he was hiding.
“It was Terana who brought him to the station at about 9:30 in the morning. By 1 p.m., we turned him over to the BJMP Medellin District Jail personnel who came to pick him up,” Mallare narrated to Cebu Daily News.
According to Mallare, Tudtud and Lagahit climbed over the fence of the district jail and went their separate ways. Lagahit was reportedly going to his family in Daanbantayan.
Tudtud was arrested last January in Silay City, Negros Occidental where he fled after shooting to death three workers. He claimed he never intended to shoot his colleagues as he only wanted to steal some money to support his family after the bank fired him.
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