PORAC, Pampanga – A charred body found by a scavanger in a grassy lahar-laden area in barangay Mancatian here last Friday afternoon was confirmed to belong to the missing son of Marcos loyalist Oliver Lozano, the local police said.
In a report to local police head Chief Inspector Ryan David, police probers said the body of Emerson Lozano, 44, was found at about 1 p.m. last Friday by a scavenging boy near the anti-lahar megadike in the barangay. Alerted barangay officials then informed the police who initially did not suspect it belonged to Emerson Lozano, 44, son of the well-known Marcos lawyer.
The police said dentures from the body matched dental records of the younger Lozano, as provided by the Quezon City police.
Full results of the autopsy was not available yesterday, so police probers could not immediately say whether the victim was shot first before being burned.
But probers said that while Lozano might have been killed elsewhere as no one living in the area had reported having heard any gunshot previously, there were signs the body was burned in the site where it was found in Mancatian. The body was brought to Galang funeral parlor in Angeles City after it was found.
Lozano, a buy-and-sell trader of cars, and his driver Ernanie Sensil, 32, were abducted last Jan. 12 at a gas station along Commonwealth avenue where they were supposed to meet with a buyer of a 2008 Kia Carnival van, with plate no. QAE 333 that Lozano was selling. Both Lozano and Sensil failed to go home that night.
Sensil’s body, also charred and with a bullet hole in the head, was found at 6:30 a.m. the following day in Barangay Matayumtayum in La Paz, Tarlac. The body was reportedly 30 percent charred.
Earlier, probers from the Quezon City police said they suspected that the prospective buyer of Lozano’s 2008 Kia Carnival van may have called Lozano to a different meeting place where the alleged kidnapping may have happened. This, after persons interviewed by the police said they did not notice anything unusual at the supposed time of meeting between Lozano and his clients.
In a report to local police head Chief Inspector Ryan David, police probers said the body of Emerson Lozano, 44, was found at about 1 p.m. last Friday by a scavenging boy near the anti-lahar megadike in the barangay. Alerted barangay officials then informed the police who initially did not suspect it belonged to Emerson Lozano, 44, son of the well-known Marcos lawyer.
The police said dentures from the body matched dental records of the younger Lozano, as provided by the Quezon City police.
Full results of the autopsy was not available yesterday, so police probers could not immediately say whether the victim was shot first before being burned.
But probers said that while Lozano might have been killed elsewhere as no one living in the area had reported having heard any gunshot previously, there were signs the body was burned in the site where it was found in Mancatian. The body was brought to Galang funeral parlor in Angeles City after it was found.
Lozano, a buy-and-sell trader of cars, and his driver Ernanie Sensil, 32, were abducted last Jan. 12 at a gas station along Commonwealth avenue where they were supposed to meet with a buyer of a 2008 Kia Carnival van, with plate no. QAE 333 that Lozano was selling. Both Lozano and Sensil failed to go home that night.
Sensil’s body, also charred and with a bullet hole in the head, was found at 6:30 a.m. the following day in Barangay Matayumtayum in La Paz, Tarlac. The body was reportedly 30 percent charred.
Earlier, probers from the Quezon City police said they suspected that the prospective buyer of Lozano’s 2008 Kia Carnival van may have called Lozano to a different meeting place where the alleged kidnapping may have happened. This, after persons interviewed by the police said they did not notice anything unusual at the supposed time of meeting between Lozano and his clients.
