CITF nabs Pasay cop in entrapment op over kidnap-for-ransom case

Members of the police counter-intelligence group arrested in an entrapment operation early Wednesday morning a policeman in Pasay City, over an alleged kidnap-for-ransom complaint.

GMA News' Jonathan Andal on Super Radyo dzBB's "Dobol B sa News TV" identified the suspect as Police Corporal Anwar Encarnacion Nasser.

Pulis-Pasay City, arestado ng CITF sa umano'y kidnapping at pangongotong; 3 iba pa, nakatakas. | via @JonathanAndal_ pic.twitter.com/pQ9AL4vtgf

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PNP Counter-Intelligence Task Force (CITF) commander Colonel Romeo Caramat Jr. was quoted in the report as saying that the entrapment operation was conducted at the Pasay City Police Station 1 at about 4 a.m. against Cpl. Nasser and three others.

Caramat said the operation stemmed from a complaint of the live-in partner of the man the suspects "arrested."

The victim's partner claimed the suspects demanded P100,000 ransom for her partner's freedom.

Three other suspects escaped during the entrapment operation, whom Caramat identified as Lieutenant Leonardo Frave, chief of Pasay City Police Station 1-Drug Enforcement Unit; Patrolman Anthony Fernandez; and Sergeant Rigor Octaviano.

They ran away with the P100,000 marked money used in the operation.

An initial investigation showed that the man the suspects arrested had been "detained" without a police blotter and arrest record. He was released after the entrapment operation.

Nasser is facing kidnapping charges, while the three other suspects are now subjects of police manhunt. —LBG, GMA News