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UPDATED REPORT

Finding Dumpit a Liability,


Mayor Osmena discards him

TAGBILARAN – Finding his former bodyguard Adonis Dumpit a


serious liability to his political career and family, Cebu City
Mayor Tomas Osmena sent him away after a heated argument late in
May, two of his fellow police officers said on Sunday.

SPO3 Ritchell Sala Tejano and PO3 Romeo Borinaga Batuhan could
not immediately confirm whether the misunderstanding between the
mayor and Dumpit was about the November 2017 killing of Ermita,
Cebu City barangay captain Felicisimo Rupinta, about which
Osmena was suspected to have masterminded.

Speculation went rife over a police investigation zeroing in on


Dumpit as suspected gunman in the Tayud, Liloan ambush on
Rupinta.

“Osmena wanted our friend [Dumpit] to accept another outside-


Cebu-City assignment [within Region 7], to which he refused,”
says Tejano, adding that Dumpit preferred to keep his city
posting for at least one year more.

Dumpit, 55, appeared to have developed symptoms of psychological


instability arising from probable addition to meth drugs.

Osmena appointed Dumpit acting Ermita village chairman when its


barangay captain and seven councilors were suspended for six
months for failing to cooperate with the Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in a November 2016 interdiction action
on suspected meth drug retailers.

His transfer orders to Tagbilaran went into effect on June 14,


2018, which he duly complied with.

The city mayor and wife Margarita, who kept him as police escort
and bodyguard alongside Tejano and Batuhan for many years, held
second thoughts about indeterminate emotional outbursts that
would affect the family home in Guadalupe, according to members
of the Osmena household staff.

He was gunned down and killed by a posse of police and agents


from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) before he was
able to attend the pre-arrival briefing for the visit of
President Rodrigo Duterte.

The NBI operation on Dumpit occurred within days after he told


other police officers he was to seek help from Manila colleagues
in clearing him from alleged involvement with Osmena as a
suspected drug lord protector.

His batch-mates in police boot camp recalled him as telling them


that the “death of Jaguar [Jeffrey Diaz] and many others stemmed
from assassinations.”
A political patron of the mayor, “Jaguar” appeared to have been
gunned down in Las Pinas, Rizal in June 2016 by police cohorts
of Osmena who tracked him down and prevented him from squealing
on the city’s meth trade and its drug lord protector.

The woman who gave information about Jaguar’s whereabouts, Anna


Lou Llaguno, was gunned down in October 4, 2016, police records
show. She was the common-law wife of self-confessed drug lord
Kerwin Espinosa, son of Leyte provincial drug kingpin, Albuera
town mayor Rolando Espinosa, Sr.

The gunman and motorcycle-rising look-out, Richard Singco Jungoy


and Michael Lendio, respectively, who shoot Llaguno gangland
style, were shot dead in separate gun attacks on October 18,
2016.

The gunmen who carried the attack fled to Bohol, where they were
tracked down and killed allegedly by Dumpit.

“I just hope trouble won’t pursue me into retirement,” one of


his retirement-bound police training classmates quoted him as
saying.

Throughout the 35 years in police service, he has been caught


between devotion to duty as a law enforcer and loyalty to his
economic patron, Mayor Osmena.

The mayor gave him financial allowances to help him make both
ends meet as a breadwinner for two families: Josephine Gabuya’s
in Cebu City, with whom he had a son, and Ella Amores in
Tagbilaran who sired him three children.

A consistent service awardee at 55, a year short into


retirement, but running a clandestine drug enterprise in this
central Philippine city, Dumpit was killed on Wednesday (June
27) in a gun battle with police and justice department agents
sent to investigate him on suspicions of retailing
metamphetamine drugs, commonly called meth or “poor man’s
cocaine, and coddling meth sellers.

A senior police officer first grade (SPO1), a rank equivalent to


technical sergeant in the army, he was assigned in the regional
mobile force of the Philippine National Police in Bohol province
in 1989. (With Interpol reports, FBI profiles and inputs from
the CIA Manila station)

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