Col. Romeo Baleros, Negros Occidental provincial police director, in his security briefing yesterday with members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Negros Occidental during their regular session, identified the successor of Fernandez as Rogelio Posadas.
Fernandez and his wife, Cleofe Lagtapon, who also served as his deputy, as well as Gee Ann Fernandez, were captured by the combined police and military intelligence operatives in Laguna in May this year.
There are four guerilla fronts under KR-NCBS, including the Northern Negros Front, Central Negros Front, South West Negros Front and the South East Negros Front.
Posadas, with the aliases of Poten, Isko, Roger and Bothchoy, was reported by the military to have been captured in 2015. But he was released from jail after posting bail, and went underground again, according to Brig. Gen. Benedict Arevalo, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander.
Posadas was intercepted at a checkpoint in January 2015 in Barangay Punao, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental. He has a warrant of arrest for murder issued by Judge Renato Muñez of the Regional Trial Court Branch 60 in Cadiz City.
Before his new position, Posadas used to be the secretary of the KR-Negros North Negros Front, which is now led by Charity Amaca, Baleros said yesterday.
But Arevalo clarified that the latest information they got on Posadas is still being validated.
Baleros reported that they have recorded 11 violent incidents perpetrated by the New People’s Army in Negros Occidental, from May 31 last year to June 30 this year.
In the same period, he also reported, 10 suspected NPA rebels had been arrested, 54 others surrendered, and also surrendered 43 firearms.
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2019/July/10/topstory3.htm
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