NBI officer in charge Eric Distor said Espinosa and two other detainees, whom he did not identify, tried to escape on Jan. 13 by passing through the air vent of the bureau’s detention facility on Taft Avenue.
“In one of the cells of the jail, the raiding team of [NBI] agents observed a deformed exhaust fan, which when removed, exposed a hole fit for a detainee to escape,” he added. Then Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II opted to detain him at the NBI after the controversial killing of his father, Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. of Albuera, Leyte, while in police detention that year.
In October 2017, Espinosa pleaded not guilty before the Manila RTC Branch 26 in connection with illegal drug trading and firearms possession charges.
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