La Union jail head, guard sacked over drug dealers’ escape

BALAOAN, La Union – The warden of the jail here and one of his jail guards were relieved from their posts Thursday following the escape of a female detainee charged for transporting several kilos of marijuana.

Senior Supt. Miguel Cawi, regional director of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, relieved Capt. Samuel Mariano and Jail Officer 1 Glenn Wanson for alleged neglect of duty.

Mariano and Wanson were reassigned to the BJMP regional office in San Fernando City pending investigation of administrative cases filed against them.

Cawi imposed the sanction after he discovered in a surprise inspection that illegal drug suspect Beatriz Bias, 29, was missing during a headcount of inmates. Capt. Morris Packley, who replaced Mariano, said Bias escaped after she was allowed by jail personnel to do household chores. – Jerry Padilla