Palace condemns road rage, orders PNP to get suspect

11/22/2009

Malacañang yesterday condemned, “in the strongest terms possible,” the recent “senseless” killing of a son of a Palace official over a traffic incident last Wednesday along Santolan Road in Quezon City.

In a radio interview from Dumaguete City, Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said “we have ordered the Philippine National Police to leave no stone unturned.”

“Just last night, PNP chief Gen. Jesus Verzosa reported to me that they have identified the suspect and that there is now a manhunt for the suspect.

“We would like to take this opportunity to call on the suspect and everyone who knows him to convince him to surrender himself peacefully even to me here in Malacañang, so that we can give justice to this senseless and brutal murder of the only son of Undersecretary Renato Ebarle Sr. of the Palace Chief of Staff,” Remonde said.

Ebarle Sr. has a close relationship to Remonde even when Remonde was still at the Presidential Management Staff.

Reports said the suspect, Jason Ivler, 27, a stepson of Briton Stephen Pollard (an economist of the Asian Development Bank) by a previous marriage of his wife Marlene Aguilar (sister of singer Freddie Aguilar) was earlier arrested for killing another Palace official, Presidential Technical Assistant for Resettlement Undersecretary Nestor Ponce Jr. in August 2004. Ivler escaped.

The young Ebarle, a recruitment manager of the Manila Peninsula Hotel, was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser on Santolan Road in Quezon City at 11 p.m. last Wednesday when he almost collided with a blue Honda CRV with diplomatic plate 209003 registered under Pollard’s name. PNA

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