By MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City — From the Silay City police station lockup cell, murder suspect Noel Ayalin was transferred to the Metro Bacolod District Jail with Special Intensive Care Area (MBDJ-SICA).
Chief Insp. Larry Fuentes, city jail warden, said his office, at 5 p.m. on Monday, received from Judge Felipe Banzon of the Regional Trial Court Branch 69 in Silay City an order on Ayalin’s transfer.
Banzon, in his order dated May 19, 2014, did not state any reason for deciding to move Ayalin to MBDJ-SICA on Magsaysay St., Brgy. Taculing here.
He also set an arraignment on Ayalin’s case — revived after the suspect was arrested in Iba, Zambales, last week — on May 26 at 8:30 a.m.
Fuentes said Ayalin was hauled off to a fully secured facility and is “in good condition.”
Ayalin is considered a “high-risk” inmate because he was accused of committing a heinous crime — which could be the reason for his detention in MBDJ-SICA — said Fuentes.
Ayalin is facing four counts of direct assault with murder, three counts of attempted murder and two counts of attempted homicide.
Fuentes said the district jail here is the only in Negros Occidental that has a SICA and caters to high-risk prisoners.
Ayalin’s family reportedly requested that the suspect be detained either in the district jail here or the provincial jail in Brgy. Tabunan, Bago City.
No bail had been recommended for the suspect’s provisional liberty, Banzon said./PN
