Zambales cops hold 6 fake APORs
SIX Unauthorized Persons Outside Residence (APORs) from Bulacan were arrested by Zambales policemen who found them in possession of falsified certificates of residency when they recently tried to enter Subic, Zambales Police Provincial Office director, Colonel Romano V. Cardiño told the Journal Group.
The official said the six identified as Dryan Jeremy Roberto, 26; his brother Devin James,25; Dale Justley Roberto,24; Raymond Alarba,24; Ryan Christian Ramirez,24; and Robert Moron,24, are all residents of Meycauayan City, Bulacan.
In a report to Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) director, Brigadier General Valeriano T. de Leon, the official said the six were accosted by members of the Subic Municipal Police Station manning the border control point along the national highway in Barangay Sto. Tomas 11:30 a.m. last Saturday.
The six were on board a blue jitney when they were intercepted by policemen and municipal government employees manning the border point in the province which is under a Modified General Community Quarantine until August 31.
Cardiño said that while checking the identification papers and other documents of the six, officers noticed that Roberto had no papers prompting them to advise the latter to go to their holding area to complete the process.
He said that the officers later discovered that the Certificates of Residency they presented did not match the addresses on their identification cards.
Cardiño said a check with Bgy. Macarang chairman Gerald Abutin showed the six were not residents of their barangay, triggering their arrest for falsification of public documents.
All six were taken to the Rural Health Unit in Bgy. Mangan-vaca in Subic where their antigen test showed they were negative for COVID-19, according to Subic Municipal Police Station chief, Major San Juan Felmar Aquino.
However, the six will still be facing criminal charges for falsification of public documents and Republic Act 11332 or the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act enacted in 2019 as well as violation of Provincial Ordinance No. 2020-08 designed to help curb down the spread of the deadly virus in the province.
Cardiño said they have been very strict in preventing the entry of UPORs in the province, including tourists as a precaution against the entry of the more contagious Delta variant of COVID-19.
The local tourism office said those who were authorized to proceed to Zambales for essential travel are required to register in their online visitor’s platform: s-pass.ph.
Essential travelers must also present negative results from their reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests or their rapid antigen tests, regardless of whether they have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
