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    People Vs Enojas

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    PO2 Gregorio and PO2 Pangilinan were patrolling when they spotted a suspicious taxi. They questioned the driver, Enojas, and brought him to the station for further questioning. On the way, they stopped and PO2 Pangilinan was shot and killed during an encounter with suspected robbers. Enojas then fled the scene. Suspecting his involvement, police searched his taxi and found his phone. POS Cambi monitored the phone's messages and posed as Enojas to communicate with others involved. This led to an entrapment operation and the arrest of Enojas and his co-accused. The court admitted the text messages as evidence, as PO3

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    PO2 Gregorio and PO2 Pangilinan were patrolling when they spotted a suspicious taxi. They questioned the driver, Enojas, and brought him to the station for further questioning. On the way, they stopped and PO2 Pangilinan was shot and killed during an encounter with suspected robbers. Enojas then fled the scene. Suspecting his involvement, police searched his taxi and found his phone. POS Cambi monitored the phone's messages and posed as Enojas to communicate with others involved. This led to an entrapment operation and the arrest of Enojas and his co-accused. The court admitted the text messages as evidence, as PO3

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    PO2 Gregorio and PO2 Pangilinan were patrolling when they spotted a suspicious taxi. They questioned the driver, Enojas, and brought him to the station for further questioning. On the way, they stopped and PO2 Pangilinan was shot and killed during an encounter with suspected robbers. Enojas then fled the scene. Suspecting his involvement, police searched his taxi and found his phone. POS Cambi monitored the phone's messages and posed as Enojas to communicate with others involved. This led to an entrapment operation and the arrest of Enojas and his co-accused. The court admitted the text messages as evidence, as PO3

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    PO2 Gregorio and PO2 Pangilinan were patrolling when they spotted a suspicious taxi. They questioned the driver, Enojas, and brought him to the station for further questioning. On the way, they stopped and PO2 Pangilinan was shot and killed during an encounter with suspected robbers. Enojas then fled the scene. Suspecting his involvement, police searched his taxi and found his phone. POS Cambi monitored the phone's messages and posed as Enojas to communicate with others involved. This led to an entrapment operation and the arrest of Enojas and his co-accused. The court admitted the text messages as evidence, as PO3

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    People vs Enojas

    Facts

    PO2 Eduardo Gregorio, Jr and P02 Francisco Pangilinan (PO2 Pangilinan) were patrolling the
    vicinity of Toyota Alabang and SM Southmall when they spotted a taxi that was suspiciously
    parked in front of the Aguila Auto Glass. The officers approached the taxi and asked the driver,
    later identified as accused Enojas, for his documents. The latter complied but, having
    entertained doubts regarding the veracity of documents shown them, they asked him to come
    with them to the police station in their mobile car for further questioning.2

    Accused Enojas voluntarily went with the police officers and left his taxi behind. On reaching
    the 7-11 convenience store on the Zapote-Alabang Road, however, they stopped and PO2
    Pangilinan went down to relieve himself there. As he approached the stores door, however,
    he came upon two suspected robbers and shot it out with them. PO2 Pangilinan shot one
    suspect dead and hit the other who still managed to escape. But someone fired at PO2
    Pangilinan causing his death.

    On hearing the shots, PO2 Gregorio came around and fired at an armed man whom he saw
    running towards Pilar Village. He saw another man, who came from the Jollibbee outlet, run
    towards Alabang-Zapote Road while firing his gun at PO2 Gregorio. The latter returned fire
    but the men were able to take a taxi and escape. PO2 Gregorio radioed for help and for an
    ambulance. On returning to his mobile car, he realized that accused Enojas, the taxi driver
    they had with them had fled.

    Suspecting that accused Enojas, the taxi driver who fled, was involved in the attempted
    robbery, they searched the abandoned taxi and found a mobile phone that Enojas apparently
    left behind. P/Ins. Torred instructed PO3 Joel Cambi (PO3 Cambi) to monitor its incoming
    messages.

    PO3 Cambi and PO2 Rosarito testified that they monitored the messages in accused Enojas
    mobile phone and, posing as Enojas, communicated with the other accused. The police then
    conducted an entrapment operation that resulted in the arrest of accused Santos and
    Jalandoni. Subsequently, the police were also able to capture accused Enojas and Gomez. The
    prosecution presented the transcripts of the mobile phone text messages between Enojas and
    some of his co-accused.

    Issue:

    Whether or not the text messages are admissible in evidence?

    Held:

    As to the admissibility of the text messages, the RTC admitted them in conformity with the
    Courts earlier Resolution applying the Rules on Electronic Evidence to criminal actions. 15 Text
    messages are to be proved by the testimony of a person who was a party to the same or has
    personal knowledge of them.16 Here, PO3 Cambi, posing as the accused Enojas, exchanged
    text messages with the other accused in order to identify and entrap them. As the recipient
    of those messages sent from and to the mobile phone in his possession, PO3 Cambi had
    personal knowledge of such messages and was competent to testify on them.

    The accused lament that they were arrested without a valid warrant of arrest.1wphi1 But,
    assuming that this was so, it cannot be a ground for acquitting them of the crime charged but
    for rejecting any evidence that may have been taken from them after an unauthorized search
    as an incident of an unlawful arrest, a point that is not in issue here. At any rate, a crime had
    been committedthe killing of PO2 Pangilinanand the investigating police officers had
    personal knowledge of facts indicating that the persons they were to arrest had committed
    it.17 The text messages to and from the mobile phone left at the scene by accused Enojas
    provided strong leads on the participation and identities of the accused. Indeed, the police
    caught them in an entrapment using this knowledge.

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