Judge orders Palparan’s detention at Bulacan Provincial Jail

(Updated 1:07 p.m.) A Bulacan judge on Wednesday ordered the transfer of captured retired Army general Jovito Palparan Jr. to the Bulacan Provincial Jail.

Bulacan Judge Teodora Gonzalez issued the commitment order after the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) returned the arrest warrant to the court.

"On the receipt today by this Court is the 'Return of Warrant of Arrest'… the Chief of Security Management Division of NBI, Manila, who is in custody of the person, is hereby directed to produce him before this Court and to commit him in the Bulacan Provincial Jail immediately upon receipt hereof," Gonzalez's one-page order read.

The NBI explained to the judge that it did not present Palparan to her on Wednesday because it considered Palparan a high-risk detainee.

Palparan's arraignment was set on Monday, August 18, at 10 a.m.

"Considering the arrest of the accused, set his arraignment on August 18, 2014 at 10 a.m. in the morning," the judge's order read.

The Bulacan Provincial Jail management said it was ready to accommodate Palparan, according to a report by GMA News stringer Rommel Ramos on radio dzBB.

Palparan, the main suspect in the disappearance of two UP students in 2006 and also blamed for extrajudicial killings of suspected communist sympathizers, was arrested by the NBI in Sta. Mesa, Manila, before dawn Tuesday. He was in hiding for almost three years.

Palparan, who has been detained at the NBI head office in Manila since his arrest, has denied the allegations. —Joel Locsin and Rouchelle Dinglasan/KBK, GMA News