Calabarzon cops bag wanted NPA member in Pandi
MEMBERS of the Regional Mobile Force Battalion (RMFB) of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 4-A early morning Friday arrested a wanted female New People’s Army (NPA) personality during a manhunt operation in Pandi, Bulacan, a report to PRO4-A Director Brigadier General Jose Melencio C. Nartatez Jr. said.
PRO4-A RMFB Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Lieutenant Col. Agosto M. Asuncion said the suspect, with the aliases “Jess/Yeng,” 33, and a resident of Barangay Mapulang Lupa in Pandi municipality, was captured.
The official said that a tracker team from the PRO4-A RMFB placed the suspect under arrest at 5 a.m. Friday on the strength of a warrant of arrest for attempted homicide issued by Judge Donna Pascual of the Cavinti-Luisiana Municipal Circuit Trial Court (MTC) in Laguna on April 26, 2012.
The tracker team led by Major Karl Axel Sta. Clara and Captain Maria Ailyn Franca, in coordination with the Pandi Municipal Police Station (MPS) and the Army’s 80th Infantry Battalion (IB), served the warrant against the accused, who managed to be in hiding for more than 11 years under the RMFB 4-A was tipped off by a concerned citizen regarding her whereabouts.
Asuncion said that the accused used to be an officer of the NPA’s Nilo Hatol Command operating in Quezon province and who has been in the periodic status report of the PRO4-A during the 3rd quarter of 2022.
Described as the daughter of a former squad leader of the NPA’s Eduardo Dagli Command, who was killed in an encounter with government troops in Batangas on April 29, 2019 and a sister of another NPA member, the suspect reportedly became the party wife of another NPA leader who perished in a clash with troops in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro on June 3, 2019.
The official said that the suspect is wanted for her involvement in an attack on Army soldiers in Barangay San Jose in Luisiana, Laguna wherein three enlisted personnel were wounded.
She was also described as a member of the Kadamay-Bulacan, a group accused of illegally occupying around 6,000 social housing units built by the National Housing Authority (NHA) in Pandi, Bulacan, for uniformed personnel and informal settlers in March 2017.
Asuncion said that the suspect is now being held at their headquarters pending her presentation to the court.
