Authorities are guarding tightly the detention facility where four long wanted leaders of the New People’s Army, two of them women, are clamped down following their arrest early this week in Lianga, Surigao del Sur.
The Police Regional Office-13 announced the arrest in separate operations by its units of Gretchen Baroro and the relatives Alecia Tejero, Jayson Tejero and Bonnie Tejero only last Thursday to provide civilian informants who led policemen to their hideouts enough time to relocate to safe areas.
Baroro, the most senior from among the four NPA officials now detained, ranked second in the top ten most wanted persons in Region 13, facing multiple murder, arson, kidnapping and illegal detention cases at the Regional Trial Court Branch 7 in Bayugan City in Agusan del Sur and at the RTC Branch 55 in Trento town in the same province.
Units of PRO-13 had arrested 21 wanted NPA leaders in a series of operations in towns and cities under its jurisdiction in the past 24 months. Up to 90.1 percent of Filipinos do not support the membership of an office of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the...
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