By NORA SORINO
and SITA ASEQUIA
of GSD-Iligan Bureau
ILIGAN City–A regional judge on Monday ordered the groups of Mayor Celso Regencia and Vice Mayor Ruderic Marzo to stop from issuing comments in public about his temporary restraining order (TRO).
Judge Arthur Abundiente of the Regional Trial Court Branch 4 in Lanao del Norte also warned that he would slap any of the erring parties a fine of P30 thousand or send them to prison for a maximum of six months.
Abundiente earlier issued a TRO in favor of the detained Regencia, forcing Marzo, who was acting mayor, to step aside. Regencia is detained in connection with a murder and frustrated murder case filed in connection with the 2014 ambush of the group of Rep. Vicente Belmonte Jr. near the airport in Misamis Oriental.
Marzon’s lawyer Moises Dalisay Jr. and lawyer-petitioner Ver Quimco confirmed gthat the judge issued the order.
Marzo has filed a motion to lift Abundiente’s TRO before the Court of Appeals in Cagayan de Oro.
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