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85727, Espiritu was arrested without warrant, on Regala, one of the suspects in the said killing, was arrested and
the basis of the attestation of certain witnesses: Espiritu spoke he pointed to Narciso Nazareno as one of his companions; that
at a gathering of drivers and sympathizers, where he said, at 7:20 of the same morning (28 December 1988), the police
among other things: agents arrested Nazareno, without warrant, for investigation.
Bukas tuloy ang welga natin . . . hanggang sa magkagulona. Although the killing of Bunye II occurred on 14 December 1988,
while Nazareno's arrest without warrant was made only on 28
The police authorities were present during the press December 1988, or 14 days later, the arrest fans under Section
conference held at the National Press Club (NPC) on 22 5(b) of Rule 113, since it was only on 28 December 1988 that
November 1988 where Espiritu called for a nationwide strike the police authorities came to know that Nazareno was
(of jeepney and bus drivers). Espiritu was arrested without probably one of those guilty in the killing of Bunye II and the
warrant, not for subversion or any "continuing offense," but for arrest had to be made promptly, even without warrant, (after
uttering the above-quoted language which, in the perception the police were alerted) and despite the lapse of fourteen (14)
of the arresting officers, was inciting to sedition. days to prevent possible flight.