Berroya eliminated an important witness vs. Mary "Rosebud" Ong on her drug deals.

Mary Ong and Col. Reynaldo Berroya's mutual partnership seems to go a long way back in September 1992, after Mary Ong was arrested for trafficking thirty (30) kilograms of shabu through air parcel delivery. The criminal case filed against her was dismissed after one of the prosecution's witnesses, Police Officer Elmer Pueda, and his lawyer were killed at Magallanes Shopping Center by Berroya, then head of the PACC's Task Force Lawin, in connivance with Mary Ong.

Berroya implicated Joe Pring and Timotheo Zarcal to kidnapping and other criminal activities without sufficient evidence paving the way for their assassination by confessed ABB hitmen.

It was Berroya who reported to then PACC head Vice President Estrada that Pring and Zarcal were involved in kidnapping and other crimes. The cases against the two had not been proven but it was enough reason for self-proclaimed ABB hitmen to assassinate them for propaganda purposes. It was also a very convenient way for Berroya to escape the wrath of the two dishonored policemen.

Berroya continuously plots against those responsible for his arrest on the Jack Chou kidnap-for-ransom.

Berroya bears a heavy grudge against Senator Lacson, who was mainly responsible for his arrest on the kidnap-for-ransom case of Jack Chou. Berroya also bore the same ill feelings against Col. John Campos, who served as vital link to Hong Kong police sources who provided vital information on him regarding the Jack Chou kidnapping. Actually what gave Berroya away was the expensive watch he was seen wearing that belonged to Jack Chou.

So why was Berroya released from prison? Berroya, according to the court decision, is "NOT LILY WHITE" but he had to be released on certain technicalities.

Demolition job against Senator Lacson and extermination job against Col. Campos?

Berroya provided Joma Sison the perfect justification to have Kintanar killed by communist hitmen.

Wrote Sison: "The mastermind [behind] the assassination plot against my person is no less than Joseph Ejercito Estrada. Upon advice of General Panfilo Lacson, he directed… Romulo Kintanar [then an official of TESDA] to serve as the chief project officer of the assassination plot, and to prepare the operational plan together with Arturo Tabara and Nilo dela Cruz of the [Revolutionary Proletarian Army (RPA-ABB)]"

"We have been anticipating this team to walk into a trap on my birthday, February 8 or some other occasion in February or March. But the exposé of the assassination plot by Col. Reynaldo Berroya came on January 31, 2001, in a radio interview with DZBB's Mike Enriquez. Consequently, we have decided to further expose the assassination plot in the mass media."

Sison added: "In my opinion, Colonel Berroya made his exposé with the honest intention of holding Estrada and company responsible and preempting the possible embarrassment of the Arroyo [administration] were I to be assassinated after the fall of Estrada."

By Dan Mariano
Opinion Today, Jan. 25, 2003

"The claim that Kintanar was conniving with the military and police in counterinsurgency operations is speculative. The CPP has not presented any evidence. Same with the so-called assassination plot on CPP founding chair Jose Ma. Sison.

By Nathan Gilbert Quimpo
Inquirer News Service, Jan. 28, 2003
(The author is a former member of the Mindanao Commission and International Department of the Communist Party of the Philippines. He wrote this commentary from Australia where he is finishing his doctorate.)

"He (Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal) said Kintanar also led a group that tried to assassinate Sison, CPP founding chair, in May 2000. He said the attempt failed because of squabbles within Kintanar's group."

"But his widow, Joy (Ma. Gloria Asuncion-Kintanar), said the charges against her slain husband were 'all lies'."

By Agnes Donato, TJ Burgonio, Carlito Pablo and Christian Esguerra
Inquirer News Service, Jan. 26, 2003