Convicted ex-Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez dies — BuCor

Katrina Hallare 03/27/2021

MANILA, Philippines — Convicted former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez has passed away, the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) announced Saturday morning. BuCor spokesman Gabriel Chaclag said that Sanchez was declared on arrival when brought to the New…

Ex-Calauan mayor Antonio Sanchez now at JRRMMMC for TB, stage V CKD

Tetch Torres-Tupas 09/07/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Former Calauan Mayor Antonio Sanchez is suffering from tuberculosis, multiple electrolyte imbalance and stage V Chronic Kidney Disease, and has been transferred to a government facility, Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) spokesman Gabriel Chaclag said…

A barefaced lie

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 09/01/2019

  “It is not a secret if it is known by three people,” is an Irish proverb that warns of the dangers of sharing secret stories but it also applies to the way top officials of the…

Public outrage stopped Aug. 20 Sanchez release, his family says

08/28/2019

  CALAUAN, Laguna, Philippines — His bags were packed and he had taken a bath. The night before, he was fingerprinted as part of the release procedures. Antonio Sanchez, a former mayor of Calauan, Laguna province, was…

Duterte blocked release of Sanchez, says Go

Julie M. Aurelio - Philippine Daily Inquirer 08/27/2019

MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra and Bureau of Corrections Director General Nicanor Faeldon not to release convicted rapist and murderer Antonio Sanchez, Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go said on Monday. Go,…

Vigilance and social media thwarted the early release of Antonio Sanchez

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 08/25/2019

When newspaper reporters received a disturbing information on the evening of August 20, 2019 that convicted rapist and murderer Antonio Sanchez will soon step out of the New Bilibid Prisons a free man, they immediately checked the…

Dela Rosa: Mayor convicted of rape, murder ‘deserves second chance’

08/22/2019

MANILA, Philippines — Former Mayor Antonio Sanchez of Calauan town in Laguna “deserves a second chance,” Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, a former chief of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), said on Wednesday. Dela Rosa said this…

WHAT WENT BEFORE: ‘A plot seemingly hatched in hell’

08/22/2019

On March 14, 1995, after a 16-month trial, then Pasig Regional Trial Court Judge Harriet Demetriou found former Mayor Antonio Sanchez of Calauan, Laguna, and six of his henchmen guilty in the 1993 rape-slay of University of…

Antonio Sanchez was convicted of 2 other murders

08/22/2019

MANILA, Philippines — Before Eileen Sarmenta was raped and killed and Allan Gomez was tortured and shot to death, Antonio Sanchez, then mayor of Calauan town in Laguna, was already being tried for two counts of murder.…

Early Sanchez release sparks fear, anguish

08/22/2019

  Fear, disbelief and painful emotions gripped the family of murder victim Allan Gomez when media reports came out that the man responsible for his death and the rape-slay of his college sweetheart 26 years ago might…

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