It may be a classic case of history repeats itself. Or, some messed-up attention-hungry slob wants to grab all the credits without using the grey matter men are endowed. Or, there isn’t any grey matter at all to talk about in the first place.
Not a few weeks ago, news spread about a guy nabbed in a buy bust, who suddenly became the suspect of a brutal murder of a radio broadcaster.
Police said they have him in sights for over a week. But they couldn’t get him for murder, they need to desperately tag him for drugs enough to plaster in the public the infamous idea of a case going on to the rails.
Well, suspect was presented to the media and yes, as you must know, the race to a scoop has always animated media men to presume and let the details fall into place later.
The next day’s news was as predictable. What is not, was when a lawyer and a rights group insist the suspect is a fall guy he must be covered or he becomes a guy who falls for good. The rest is yesterday’s news.
Yesterday too, news paper reports the capture of the infamous killer of a barangay kagawad and her teen daughter in Catigbian.
The making of another blooper presents itself here.
As sketchy as the reports, the accused was not bagged for double murder, he was accosted again by, like you guessed, drugs: in a buy bust.
Either the officer who leaked the information to the reporter knows what he is doing. Or he simply knows nothing. Nada.
At least for the Orenia-Lim case, a gun ballistics tested positive connects the two. In the Catigbian bust, the connection the reports claimed, is a vulcanizing shop and all speculations of a crime investigator.
When the PPOC bewails the deplorable score-card Bohol gets against drugs, the way these cases unfold already tells us what the convict is. Alam na.