Manila, April 16 -- The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) on Wednesday said it busted the privileges of a jailed Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) member who has been lording it in a Bulacan provincial jail.

For a long time, CIDG director Maj. Gen. Nicolas Torre III said the former elite cop, identified as Abdua, enjoys certain privileges that include going out of the detention facility even without a court order.

He said Abdua heads the inmates as "mayor" after he was dismissed from the service and detained for a case of murder.

Also arrested were a certain Mario, a member of a prison gang tagged as the "Chairman of Barangay. 11" of the prison facility; a certain Tee-Jay, jail guard of Bulacan Provincial Jail; and Sar...