Task force probes slay of Marcos lawyer’s son

CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga — The Police Regional Office 3 created Tuesday “Task Force Lozano” that will focus on investigation and speedy arrest of the killers of the son of former Marcos lawyer, Oliver Lozano.

The creation of the task force followed a directive by President Benigno S. Aquino III to Chief Supt. Alan L.M. Purisima, PRO3 director, to give priority to the kidnapping and murder of 44-year-old Emerson “Burton” Lozano and his driver.

The charred body of the younger Lozano was found dumped near the FVR Megadike in Porac, Pampanga Jan. 14, two days after he was kidnapped.

Aquino also instructed Purisima to solicit the expertise of other agencies for the speedy solution of the case.

It took a few days after the charred remains were taken to the Galang Funeral Parlor in Angeles City Jan. 14 before the Lozano family, with the help of experts, positively identified the victim through his dental records.

His driver, Ernane Sensil, was found a day earlier dumped in an irrigation canal in Barangay Matayumtayum in La Paz, Tarlac.

Purisima said it has been established that the two were abducted at 7:15 p.m. Jan. 12 at a gas station on Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City where they had been waiting for a prospective buyer of the younger Lozano’s 2008 Kia Carnival (QAE-333).

Asked what the chances were for the task force to solve the case soon, Purisima answered: “There’s a big possibility to catch the culprit.”

He said by Tuesday, all the pieces of evidence needed for the task force to move forward in its investigation have been collated.