Suspect in Vhong Navarro case barred from leaving for HK

(Updated 2:05 p.m.) One of the personalities linked to the mauling of actor-TV host Vhong Navarro was barred from leaving for Hong Kong early Monday.

An immigration officer at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 questioned Ferdinand Guerrero as he was about to board a Cebu Pacific flight.

"May derogatory siyang lookout bulletin," the officer said in an interview on dzBB radio, but did not give further details.

“Guerrero was referred to secondary inspection and was not cleared for departure upon coordination with concerned government agencies,” Atty. Elaine Tan, technical assistant at the office of Bureau of Immigration Commissioner Siegfred Mison, said in a statement.

DZBB's NAIA stringer Ariel Fernandez cited initial information indicating Guerrero arrived late at the NAIA-3 to catch a Cebu Pacific (5J-108) flight for Hong Kong.

Guerrero was reportedly in a bad mood when he tried to catch the 4:43 a.m. flight.

But the immigration officers at NAIA did not allow him to board the flight supposedly because there was no clearance from Mison.

After failing to catch his flight, Guerrero left the NAIA premises hurriedly. He was not arrested, the report said.

Last March, Guerrero filed a counter-affidavit denying his involvement in the mauling of Navarro last January.
 
On April 10, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed serious illegal detention and grave coercion charges against Guerrero along with Cedric Lee, Deniece Cornejo, Bernice Lee, Simeon Raz, Jose Paolo Gregorio Calma, and Sajed Fernandez Abuhijleh for the said incident.

Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said the DOJ panel has ruled that Navarro was "being deprived of his will at that point when those men ganged up on him."
 
The DOJ issued a lookout bulletin order on January 30 against Cornejo, Cedric Lee, Bernice Lee, Guerrero, and Rance.

An LBO's purpose is to monitor an individual and not necessarily restrict him or her from leaving the country. A hold departure order is needed to prevent them from flying out.? —Joel Locsin/KG, GMA News