Convicted prisoner freed for GCTA shot dead with wife in Bayawan City

Florence Baesa 01/27/2020

DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental–A convicted prisoner, who is out due to the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA), and his wife were shot dead by still unidentified suspects in the mountain barangay of Minaba, Bayawan City on Sunday…

Ex-convict gunned down while driving his motorcycle

Alven Marie A. Timtim 09/25/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—A man driving his motorcycle was shot dead along M.J. Cuenco Avenue around 10 p.m. on Tuesday, September 24, 2019. The victim was identified by the police as Francisco Mondares Vinluan, 42-year-old currently residing in…

Sotto backs DOJ request to suspend rearrest of freed convicts

Neil Arwin Mercado - Inquirer.net 09/22/2019

MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Saturday backed the request of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to suspend the rearrest of convicts who were freed under the controversial Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law.…

CIDG-7 to monitor freed GCTA convicts who did not surrender within 15-day grace period

Alven Marie A. Timtim 09/20/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Central Visayas (CIDG-7) will continue to monitor convicts who were released with the help of the good conduct time allowance (GCTA) law and did not surrender within the…

PNP suspends hunt for GCTA-freed convicts

Cathrine Gonzales - INQUIRER.net 09/20/2019

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) suspended on Friday its crackdown on convicts believed to have been erroneously released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law, after the Department of Justice (DOJ) spotted errors…

Manhunt for GCTA-freed convicts who refuse to surrender begins at midnight – Sinas

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/19/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The convicts freed through the controversial Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law who failed to surrender today, September 19, 2019, will be considered fugitives by tomorrow, September 20. This was the warning of…

42 GCTA surrenderees from Cebu shipped to Abuyog Regional Prison in Leyte

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/18/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Ulysses Cuizon, 42, lived a free man for two years. But he will be going back to detention today, September 18, to comply with President Rodrigo Duterte’s order for the surrender of convicts…

CCPO gets list of GCTA-freed convicts; starts ‘home address visit’

Alven Marie A. Timtim 09/16/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) has received the initial list of convicts from Cebu City who were released under the good conduct time allowance (GCTA) law and has started to visit the…

CIDG-7 expects more GCTA surrenderers as deadline draws near but Josman Aznar still a no show

Alven Marie A. Timtim, Florence Baesa 09/15/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Central Visayas (CIDG-7) is preparing to accept more “surrenderers” as the 15-day deadline set by President Rodrigo Duterte for convicts released through the good conduct time…

Freed GCTA convicts who surrendered to police now at 281 — PNP

Consuelo Marquez - INQUIRER.net 09/12/2019

MANILA, Philippines — Two hundred eighty-one heinous crime convicts released through the good conduct time allowance (GCTA) law have surrendered to police stations nationwide, recent data from the Philippine National Police (PNP) showed Thursday. Of the number,…

‘Janet Lim Napoles’ listed among convicts freed on good conduct

Christine O. Avendano, Leila B. Salaverria 09/12/2019

MANILA, Philippines — Janet Lim Napoles, convicted of plunder and the alleged mastermind of the P10-billion pork barrel scam, was also found guilty of rape and released on good behavior, according to documents obtained by the Inquirer.…

130 convicts freed under GCTA have surrendered so far – PNP

Neil Arwin Mercado - Inquirer.net 09/09/2019

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) said a total of 130 convicts released under the controversial good conduct time allowance (GCTA) law have surrendered as of Monday afternoon. Among the 130 convicts who surrendered, 49…

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