Isabela deeds registry chief nabbed for bribe

ILAGAN, Isabela – Police filed bribery charges in court on Sept. 17 against the chief of the provincial registry of deeds who was nabbed in an entrapment on Sept. 13.

Charged was lawyer Rodolfo Serrano who was caught in the act of receiving P18,000 in market money he had allegedly demanded from a landowner in exchange for favorable and immediate disposition of a land dispute.

Serrano’s aide, Felimon Agbayani, was also arrested and charged.
Serrano also faces a case of illegal possession of firearm for failing to show legal papers for a Glock handgun seized from him. – Joan Capuna