Gilberto Ventura Ceballos and 11 Others Charged in the Kidnapping, Torture, and Murder of 5 Chinese Students

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Police hunt for couple linked to escaped  killer

Posted 14/02/2020

Armed with search warrants the National Police and the Public Prosecutor's have seized in a house in the district of Bugaba in Chiriqui equipment allegedly linked to the escape of multiple murderer Gilberto Ventura Ceballos , who was recaptured on Thursday, February 13 under a bridge in El Salado, Remedios, Chiriqui and carried a radio, a cell phone and binoculars.

Among the seized material there were two cell phones, computers and bank transaction receipts.

Ventura Ceballos will remain in a temporary cell at the Ancón headquarters of the National Police where he was taken with a heavily armed escort to  be paraded in front of a waiting crowd of journalists

A hearing has not yet been scheduled before a court of guarantees in the accusatory criminal system for his escape from La Nueva Joya prison, in early February.

He was serving a 50-year sentence fort he murder of five students plus another five years for previous escape. Discussons are underway  to decide where he will be held when he is returned to complete his sentences

 

https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/police-hunt-for-couple-linked-to-escaped-killer

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Police Commissioner  and Lieut Believed Linked to Killer’s Jail Break

Posted 15/02/2020

A National Police Commissioner of the National Police (PN) have been suspended  from their posts while  investigations  continue into  whether they are linked to the escape of multi- killer Gilberto Ventura Ceballos,

An administrative investigation of  Commissioner  Luis Ortiz and a Lieutenant Edwin Bonilla is underway  and they will not be able to exercise their functions until the process by the Professional Responsibility Directorate of the PN ends.

On February 4, police. press release said  that "there are indications recorded in the security cameras of the prison that in this evasion there was participation of police assigned to the security of the prison, who have been separated from the police function."

Ventura Ceballos was recaptured on  Thursday, February 13 in El Salado, Remedios district Chiriquí, less than 150 kilometers from the border with Costa Rica.

On Friday in a residence in Bugaba, Chiriquí, a search was made and communication items are allegedly related to support for the movement of the murderer,  were found.

Everything indicates that Ceballos wanted to reach Costa Rica, where he took refuge between 2016 and 2017 after a previous escape.

When he was arrested, Ventura Ceballos was under a bridge near a private estate and carried a communications radio, a flashlight, binoculars and $ 700 in cash.

The crimes of Ventura Ceballos in Panama were committed between 2010 and 2011.when five students were kidnapped and killed.

 

https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/police-commissioner-and-lieut-believed-linked-to-killers-jail-break

[Keith Woolford]

My daughter has been visiting, and the night before the guy was captured we were staying in some Cabañas in a forested area not too far away from the bridge where they caught him.

Apparently he was traveling through areas north of the highway anyway, but it was more evidence that we’re never far from drama here. 😱

Edited February 19, 2020 by Keith Woolford

[Brundageba]

.......or a $50,000.00 reward for capture !   Damn you just missed it.