Car thief Dominguez alive, but in NBP isolation area –DOJ's Guevarra

Raymond Dominguez, the convicted leader of an infamous car theft group, was alive but ill and being held at the New Bilibid Prison isolation area.

“[Bureau of Corrections Spokesperson Gabriel Chaclag] has informed me that Dominguez is alive and that he is in the NBP isolation area suffering from chronic asthma symptoms,” Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra told GMA News Online in a text message.

Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption President and Spokesperson Arsenio Evangelista earlier told Super Radyo dzBB that he had received unverified reports that Dominguez had died from COVID-19, and he had asked the National Bureau of Investigation to check if this was true.

In April 2012, Bulacan Judge Wilfredo Nieves found Dominguez, suspected leader of the Dominguez carjack gang, guilty of carjacking in 2010.

Dominguez also faced charges for other high-profile incidents including the carjack-murder of car dealer Venson Evangelista, Arsenio Evangelista's son, in 2011.

Judge Nieves would, later on, be shot dead in an ambush in Malolos, Bulacan in November 2015. — DVM, GMA News