ONE OF the junior officers linked to the July 2003 takeover of the Oakwood serviced apartments in Makati City escaped from his military escorts on Wednesday morning.
Captain Nick Faeldon was with several other mutiny leaders to attend their hearing at the Makati regional trial court when he allegedly escaped.

Eddie San Mateo, building administration officer of Makati’s Gusali ng Katarungan (Building of Justice), said the Oakwood mutiny leaders arrived at the building, located on F. Zobel Street in Barangay (village) Poblacion, around 10:30 a.m. and went up to the fourth floor where the court room of Judge Oscar Pimentel was located.

The hearing, however, was reset because the judge was not around. Court employees said Faeldon was not among those who signed the attendance sheet that they pass around before the start of the trial.

San Mateo said he saw Faeldon arrive at the Gusali ng Katarungan together with the other Oakwood mutineers. He said Faeldon even used the toilet on the ground floor.

He said he sensed something was wrong when the mutineers’ escorts from the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) appeared to be looking for someone. When he asked one of the escorts, he was told that they were looking for Faeldon.

Faeldon’s other co-accused left with their escorts around 12:30. It took another hour before the rest of the ISAFP men left the building, after failing to locate Faeldon.

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