Army beefs up security at jail holding top rebels

From the Visayan Daily Star (Apr 11): Army beefs up security at jail holding top rebels

The 303 rd Infantry Brigade has beefed up the forces of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology to secure the Negros Occidental District Jail in Barangay Tabunan, Bago City, where a notorious rebel leader and his wife are detained on non-bailable charges, its commander, Col. Jon Aying, said yesterday.

While they have not received any report on attempts to rescue detained rebel leader Reniel Cellon and his wife, Mary Jane Magquilat, so far, Aying said they are not taking chances.

He added, however, that, actually that is the usual plan for inmates with non-bailable cases, as their lawyers have also recommended.

Aying said they have deployed soldiers in the vicinity of the Provincial Jail since the first day Cellon was committed there.

Cellon, Magquilat and four other suspected rebels, are facing charges for violation of the Comelec gun ban before the Kabankalan Regional Trial Court, after the recovery of firearms and explosives from them, and from the vehicle they were riding, when they were intercepted at a checkpoint in Ilog last week.

This is on top of the murder and frustrated murder charges Cellon and Magquilat are facing, police records show.

Senior Supt. Celestino Guara, caretaker of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, confirmed yesterday that they have received reports on plans of the New People's Army to rescue Cellon, who is the commander of the NPA Southwest Front Sentro De Grabidad platoon.

Guara also said they have dispatched policemen to the Provincial Jail in Bago City.

http://www.visayandailystar.com/2013/April/11/topstory8.htm