ORMOC CITY- Civilians who held custody some properties allegedly owned by embattled Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. and his son Kerwin were separately turned over to the police authorities. Based on the information from the Albuera police, a resident of sitio Tinago, Barangay Binulho identified as Gerry Todio surrendered a 9mm pistol containing live bullets and a shot gun with 20 live ammunitions at around 5 pm on Friday (August 5). Also, a woman of this city who requested anonymity voluntarily turned over one black Innova vehicle bearing plate number NQF 431 to the city police at around 8 pm of same date. The woman was said to be the bookkeeper of the Espinosa family. After the news came out on the involvement of the family of Mayor Espinosa on the illegal drug trade, her family stopped using the vehicle which was on their possession. She disclosed that Espinosa’s common-law wife offered her to use of vehicle a year ago for bookkeeping works for Zellan Hotel based in the same town. She disclosed that the operations at the amily owned hotel have stopped since April this year. She did not provide any reason why the hotel ceased its operations.
(ELVIE ROMAN ROA)
