Dinalupihan, Bataan—Dinalupihan-Hermosa Municipal Circuit Trial Court Presiding Judge Philip M.Cruz has issued a writ of the execution order of its earlier decision ejecting 18 unlawful detainers in the Riverforest Development Corp. Property/Litton Estate in Barangay Sumalo, Hermosa.
The order was dated May 29 based on courtdocuments.
RDC Development and Community Manager Dani Beltran said they filed the case against the unlawful detainers in 2013. In June 2018, the MCTC then ordered unlawful detainers to vacate the property.
Beltran added the detainers filed a motion against the order, but MCTC re-affirmed its order in November 2018.
The detainers headed by Sumalo Barangay Captain Rolando Martinez, Beltran said in a statement, “are clever enough to use the June 8 incident to derail the execution of ejectment order issued by the court last month.”
“The attack, in the end, is no longer about the security guards whose lives they continuously threaten but more about on the integrity of the judicial process who have respected their rights to due process throughout before coming up with the decision for their ejectment with finality,” he added.
On June 8, about 20 residents started the assault on unarmed RDC guards leading to an encounter that killed one person and wounded two in Sumalo, the company said. The victims were members of the assaulting team.
Jonathan Christopher Villete died from a gunshot wound in the face, and Barangay Kagawad Elmer Bautista and his son Elmer Bautista Jr. were injured during the attack.
The RDC guards were able to escape the attack but Titanic Mistica, president of Kasama, an association of residents in Sumalo supportive of the company, was severely injured and is currently confined in a hospital.
The elder Bautista and three other barangay officials, aside from Martinez, were among the 18 unlawful detainers in the RDC Property in Sumalo, Beltran stressed.