Cops wait for Faeldon in Taytay, Rizal to serve arrest warrant

TAYTAY, Rizal - Taytay policemen and personnel from the Senate Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms were deployed on Friday morning to the residence of former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon in Taytay, Rizal to serve an arrest warrant.

Taytay police and sergeant-at-arms waiting for Faeldon in his residence in Taytay, Rizal. pic.twitter.com/i0EsLd7O1y

— Marlly Bondoc (@marllybondoc) September 8, 2017

 

Members of the Office of the Senate Sgt-At-Arms and the police are now in Taytay,Rizal to arrest former Customs Comm. Nicanor Faeldon after he failed to appear before the Senate inquiry on the smuggling of shabu worth P6.4 billion.

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Sep 7, 2017 at 6:19pm PDT

The police were deployed as early as 8 a.m. They said they visited the two houses of Faeldon but no one answered.

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Taytay police and sergeant-at-arms were deployed in Faeldon's residence in Taytay, Rizal around 8 a.m. pic.twitter.com/h0xsBZiJuZ

— Marlly Bondoc (@marllybondoc) September 8, 2017

Senate President Koko Pimentel signed the arrest warrant against Faeldon on Thursday night.

Faeldon was supposed to hold a 10 a.m. press conference in his residence in Palmera Hills VI, Barangay Dolores in Taytay on Friday.

Faeldon was cited in contempt by the Senate blue ribbon committee on Thursday for failing to respond to the panel’s subpoena Thursday. Senator Richard Gordon said he will be arrested if he does not show up at the hearing set for Monday.

“The chair orders Captain Faeldon in contempt and must report here at the next hearing on Monday,” Gordon, chairman of the committee, said before suspending the probe on the smuggling of the P6.4-billion shabu shipment.

“The sergeant-at-arms is ordered to make sure that he gets the information and that he is brought here on Monday,” Gordon said.

Faeldon’s absence on Thursday’s hearing was the second time since he was issued a subpoena by the committee on August 29.

In a letter addressed to the panel, Faeldon said he chose to skip the hearing because of the supposed “impartiality” of some senators.

“I continue to have the highest respect for the Senate as an institution but I no longer have faith in the impartiality in some of its members who have lied to malign me and other innocent resource persons,” Faeldon said.

“This is not to defy as an institution. This is a way of protesting. I want my team and I to be last victims of baseless accusations, persecution, and condemnation,” he added.

Faeldon said that if his absence will be interpreted by the committee to warrant his arrest, then he "will gladly go to jail." He even provided two addresses in Rizal where he can be found if need be. —KG, GMA News