Former police Supt. Glen Dumlao, a suspect in the abduction and double-murder of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and driver Emmanuel Corbito, finally arrived in the country  Sunday morning after being extradited from the United States.

Dumlao planed in at 3:40 a.m. yesterday at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) terminal 2 aboard Philippine Airlines flight PR 103 from Los Angeles, California. Media interviews were strictly banned during his airport arrival.

Restrained by shackles, Dumlao breezed through his airport arrival under heavy security by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Philippine National Police (PNP) agents as well as the airport police force. Also present during his arrival were NAIA assistant general manager for security Angel Atutubo and Justice

Undersecretary Ricardo R. Blancaflor, chairman of the Task Force 211 (Task Force Against Political Violence and Extra-Legal Killings).

The former police officer was accompanied during his trip to Manila by his lawyer Morell Callueng, NBI Interpol division chief Claro de Castro and Special Task Force chief Arnel Dalumpines. Callueng said Dumlao looks forward to seeing his four children.

Dumlao, who donned a black baseball cap, dark blue sport shirt and black jacket on his Manila trip yesterday morning returned to the country after giving his deposition on the petition for habeas corpus filed before a federal district court in New Jersey by his former Presidential Anti-Crime Task Force colleague Michael Ray Aquino.

Dumlao, who was the Task Group Luzon Deputy Chief for Operation of the defunct PACTF, fled the country in May 2003 and was extradited by virtue of the warrant of arrest for double murder issued by the Manila City regional trial court.

Dumlao was nabbed by US authorities in November 2008 after the Philippine Department of Justice asked the American government to give him up over his part in the twin murders of Dacer and Corbito.

“Masaya ako’t nakauwi at mahaharap ko na rin squarely yon kaso. Ito naman talaga ang root ng problema na nagha-hound sa akin ever since, so why not face it now? I could finally confront my … problems,” he said in an interview on DZBB aboard the PAL plane while en route to Manila.

Dumlao joins his former colleague Senior Supt. Cesar Mancao, who was extradited in June 4, 2009 in a holding area at the NBI compound in Manila.