PHILIPPINE Charity Sweepstakes Office board member Sandra Cam surrendered to the police while confined at a Cavite hospital on Wednesday night over the 2019 killing of the vice mayor of Batuan town in Masbate.
PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Director Maj. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro said Cam will remain in the hospital, where she is confined for a “medical concern,” for now.
A Manila City court on Monday issued arrest warrants against Cam, her son Martin, and five others accused in the killing of Batuan Vice Mayor Charlie Yuson III and the wounding of his two companions in Sampaloc, Manila in October 2019.
Yuson’s son, Charmax Jan, won as mayor of Batuan during the local elections in May 2019, beating Martin Cam.
Ferro said Cam’s police escort coordinated the surrender to the CIDG’s Regional Field Unit-CALABARZON. Ferro said Cam was already confined at the undisclosed hospital for a “medical concern” when the surrender feeler was sent.
“She has a medical concern so we cannot just bring her out,” Ferro said, adding Cam will be brought to Camp Crame or any other custodial center once she recovers from her medical condition.
“She will remain there (hospital) for the meantime. She surrendered because she has a warrant of arrest. She surrendered to the police and she has a medical concern. It’s like a hospital arrest),” Ferro said.
Lt. Col. Joseph Nandu Jr. chief of the CIDG-Cavite Field Unit, said they served the arrest warrant against Cam at a hospital in Dasmariñas City at around 8:30 p.m.
“She voluntarily surrendered. Cam called us then we proceeded to that hospital where she is confined… She is due for operation on the spinal cord. Based on our observation, she had difficulty standing,” Nandu said, adding Cam was assisted by two counsels during her surrender.
PNP chief Debold Sinas said: “As a matter of procedure, the PNP will report Cam’s arrest to the Court for proper disposition.”
Cam became prominent in 2005 when she testified before the Senate that she collected money from jueteng lords and delivered them to then presidential son Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo and to the late Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio Arroyo, brother in law of then President Gloria Arroyo.
Cam was appointed to the PCSO board in 2017. After assuming her post, she exposed alleged irregularities in the operation of the PCSO’s Small Town Lottery.
