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Daraga Mayor Calrwyn Baldo rushed to hospital after arrest for illegal possession of firearms
This was confirmed by Senior Superintendent Arnold Ardiente of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), saying that the mayor was rushed to the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Hospital in Legazpi City at around 11 p.m. after he hyperventilated inside his detention cell and his blood pressure went up. (File photo: Awin Baldo/Facebook)
Following his arrest for illegal possession of firearms, Daraga town Mayor Carlwyn Baldo was brought to a hospital on Tuesday night, January 22.
This was confirmed by Senior Superintendent Arnold Ardiente of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), saying that the mayor was rushed to the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Hospital in Legazpi City at around 11 p.m. after he hyperventilated inside his detention cell and his blood pressure went up.
A report by Radyo INQUIRER said Baldo was supposed to have inquest proceeding on Wednesday, January 23, but doctors are not yet certain if Baldo can be released from the hospital.
Baldo was nabbed by authorities on Tuesday after they seized unlicensed firearms and ammunition in his house at Barangay Tagas while serving two search warrants issued by the Legazpi Regional Trial Court (RTC).
Among those found were two caliber .45 pistols, a magazine for an Uzi Machine Pistol loaded with seven bullets, eight live ammunition for a caliber . 45 pistol, one ammunition for an M16 rifle, an ammunition for a grenade launcher, and a white Isuzu Altera.
Baldo was earlier tagged by the Philippine National Police (PNP) as the one who ordered AKO Bicol Representative Rodel Batocabe to be killed.
The mayor allegedly offered his six-man team five million pesos to assassinate Batocabe, who was supposed to run as a mayor in Daraga in the upcoming elections.
The lawmaker died along with his security escort after attending a gift-giving event for senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Barangay Burgos.
The mayor, however, denied that he was the brain behind Batocabe’s murder, saying that he was just being used as a convenient scapegoat.
Baldo was already charged with murder and frustrated murder in connection to the lawmaker’s murder.
On Friday, Baldo asked the help of President Rodrigo Duterte for “fair justice” and appealed that the safety of his family would not put into risk amid allegations thrown against him.
