Cedric Lee and pal transferred to Taguig jail

Published August 6, 2014 1:10pm

(Updated 2:08 p.m.) Businessman Cedric Lee and Simeon "Zimmer" Palma Raz were transferred to Taguig City Jail on Wednesday following a court order.

Lee and Raz are facing charges of serious illegal detention—a non-bailable offense—for mauling TV host Vhong Navarro last January.

Lee and Raz's convoy arrived at about 1:35 p.m., radio dzBB's Mao dela Cruz reported.

Convoy nina Cedric Lee at Zimmer Raz, dumating na sa Taguig City Jail. | via Mao dela Cruz

— DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) August 6, 2014

It is not immediately clear when their co-accused model Deniece Cornejo, would be brought to the Taguig CIty Jail.

Cornejo is now detained at Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame.

Lee and Raz were arrested late April by the National Bureau of Investigation in Eastern Visayas.

The Taguig Regional Trial Court Branch 271 on Tuesday junked the motions of Lee and Raz to remain at their detention cells. It also junked the motion of Cornejo to be allowed to stay at the PNP CIDG detention cell.

Lee and Raz were at the National Bureau of Investigation detention facility prior to their jail transfer on Wednesday. —Rouchelle R. Dinglasan and Joel Locsin/KG, GMA News

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