Eleazar relieves members of Pasay Police Station 1-SDEU over KFR case

National Capital Region Police Office chief Major General Guillermo Eleazar relieved Wednesday all members of the station drug enforcement unit (SDEU) of the Pasay City Police Station 1 over a kidnap-for-ransom case.

GMA News' Jonathan Andal reported on Super Radyo dzBB's Dobol B sa News TV that Eleazar has relieved the SDEU members after one of the four suspects in the kidnap-for-ransom (KFR) incident was arrested in an entrapment operation at Station 1 early Wednesday morning.

FLASH: Hepe at mga pulis ng Station Drug Enforcement Unit ng Pasay City Police Station 1, sinibak sa puwesto matapos masangkot sa kidnap-for-ransom. | via @JonathanAndal_ pic.twitter.com/O9wlZHRezq

— DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) March 6, 2019

NCRPO Police Major General Guillermo Eleazar, ipinag-utos ang pagsibak sa pwesto sa 15 miyembro kabilang ang hepe ng District Drug Enforcement Unit ng Eastern Police District. | via @Rodveg72 @dzbb pic.twitter.com/ZLYVu55Hef

— GMA News (@gmanews) March 5, 2019

Three of the KFR suspects, including the Pasay Station 1-SDEU chief, escaped the entrapment operation and are now subjects of police manhunt.

PNP Counter-Intelligence Task Force (CITF) commander Colonel Romeo Caramat Jr. earlier said 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.

Those who escaped (Lieutenant Leonardo Frave, chief of Pasay City Police Station 1-SDEU; Patrolman Anthony Fernandez; and Sergeant Rigor Octaviano) have run away with the P100,000 marked money used in the operation.

Eleazar gave the three suspects one day to surrender, after relieving all the members of the SDEU. —LBG, GMA News