(Eagle News) — Supt. Marvin Marcos, the leader of the group of supposedly rogue policemen believed to be behind the killing of Albuera, Leyte, Mayor Rolando Espinosa, an alleged drug personality, has posted bail.
The Baybay City Regional Trial Court Branch 14 granted Marcos bail after he and his 18 other co-accused—many of them his men from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Region 8—successfully appealed for the original charges of murder the Department of Justice said they would face to be downgraded to homicide.
The bail amount was immediately unknown.
It was also unclear how Marcos posted bail.
Espinosa and another inmate, Raul Yap, died on November 5, 2016 while inside the Leyte Sub-Provincial Jail in Baybay, where they were facing drug-related charges.
The CIDG8 team led by Marcos argued that Espinosa and Yap had put up a fight when the police served search warrants for illegal drugs and gun possession against them.
But some senators did not buy it, calling it a “rubout.”
Also in November, a Senate inquiry was launched to look into the supposed killings.