Police escorts arrive at Erap's Tanay resthouse

Heavily-armed escorts from the Police Security Protection Office (PSPO) arrived at former President Joseph Estrada's rest house in Tanay before 7 a.m. to prepare and bring him to the Sandiganbayan in Quezon City. Radio dzBB reported that police personnel wearing full battle gear, led by PSPO head Chief Superintendent Romeo Hilomen, arrived in four vehicles. Media representatives were kept at a distance from the rest house, the report said. It remained unclear if Estrada would be brought to the Sandiganbayan by land or by helicopter. The Sandiganbayan special division is set to issue its ruling at 9 a.m. Wednesday on Estrada's plunder and perjury case. Estrada, an actor popularly known as “Erap," was elected President in 1998 but his six-year term was cut short in 2001 when he was ousted in the “EDSA Dos" bloodless uprising in January that year. He has been detained since April 2001 when he was slapped with a P4.1-billion plunder and perjury case. -GMANews.TV