CEBU CITY–The US Embassy in Manila has advised its citizens to avoid going to southern Cebu and avoid the risk of being kidnapped. The advisory, titled “Security message for U.S. Citizens: Risk of Kidnapping in Southern Cebu”…
Abu Sayyaf pocketed at least P353 million ($7.3 million) from ransom kidnappings in the first six months of the year and have turned to abductions of foreign tugboat crewmen as military offensives restricted the militants’ mobility, a…
“A very productive hunting trip” was how Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa described his visit to Thailand as he brought home with him a former police officer charged with the abduction and…
POLICE rescued a woman who was held hostage by her neighbor at Barangay Punta Engaño at past 8 pm Tuesday. Jessica Llait, a 44-year-old resident of Sitio Kalipayan, Barangay Punta Engaño had to endure more than an…
From being called “Ms. Babag” (Ms. Obstructionist) to a kidnapper. Things have escalated quickly for Cebu City Acting Mayor Margarita “Margot” Osmeña who is now being threatened by incoming city councilor Jocelyn “Joy” Pesquera with a lawsuit…
SHE may have been forgiven, but Melissa Londres, the suspect in the kidnapping of an infant, won’t be leaving jail anytime soon. Londres’s boyfriend Winfred Almeria, however, was released from detention yesterday after the city prosecutor found…
FOUR days after losing and then regaining their baby, Jonathan and Jayvee Celadenia went home with their newborn son Prince Niño at 4 p.m. yesterday. Charges of kidnapping and serious illegal detention were filed with the Cebu…
In snatching baby Prince Niño from a hospital, call center agent Melissa Londres said she was desperate to keep her boyfriend from leaving her. She was an instant mother for less than two days. Police traced…
A desperate young woman. A fake pregnancy. And in the end, love that was not returned. For two-days, 26-year-old Melissa Londres lived the illusion of being a first-time mother. After her arrest on Tuesday night, police said…
The 26-year-old call center agent admitted to reporters that she took the baby named Prince Niño from his mother at the government-run Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) last Monday. Melissa Londres said she is sorry for…
Police arrest call center agent and her boyfriend for bizarre kidnapping Police last night rescued a newborn infant who was snatched from the Vicente Memorial Medical Center less than 36 hours earlier. An informant’s tip led to…
FROM the blue bassinet with matching pillows, to the fake white scrubs she wore at the hospital, the actions of 26-year-old Melissa Alilin Londres showed that her abduction of a newborn baby were well planned. Why did…
