Left, Couple Reniel Cellon, commander of Centro de Gravidad Platoon, and wife Mary Jane Magquilat, with their companions were arrested 8pm of Friday, April 5 at the joint AFP-PNP-COMELEC checkpoint at the national road in Dancalan, Ilog, Negros Occidental.* (Radyo Kumando photos)
According to Col. Aying, Cellon/Kumpol is a notorious charater, being the commanding officer of Centro de Gravidad Platoon of the New People’s Army (NPA) operating in the 6th and part of 5th districts in Southern Negros Occidental. He was arrested over the weekend at the joint check point along the national road in Brgy. Dancalan, Ilog, Negros Occidental. Cellon was with his wife Jane Magquilat y Flores, alias ChinChin, 38, resident of Brgy. Caliling, Cauayan.
Aying said, they have been chasing Comdr Kumpol since 2003 when he was still battalion commander of 61st IB operating in Southern Negros Occidental, until there were several changes of battalion commanders there, Kumpol was very elusive. Now, he failed to elude arrest by the arms of the law. The checkpoint where Kumpol and wife were arrested, was manned by representatives of COMELEC, Armed Forces of the Philippines through the 47th Infantry Battalion under Lt Col. Enriqueto Deocades, , and the police.
Also arrested were their companions Rodrigo Maricasa y Arnais, 48, resident of Brgy. Caliling, Cauayan; Antonio Estaniel y Emperado, 51, resident of Brgy. Inayawan, Cauayan, Negros Occidental; Jose Sonny Detomal y Gemorangan, 41, resident of Brgy. Inayawan, Cauayan, and Edison Gonzales y Fernandez, 20, resident of Masaling, Cauayan, Negros Occidental. Recovered from the possession of Kumpol were a .45 caliber pistol with SN 1333074, five magazines, 28 live ammunitions for Caliber.45; one fragmentation grenade, 1 Walter Caliber.22 pistol with SN GO1230, 3 magazines, 28 live ammunitions for 22 caliber pistol from the possession of Mary Jane Magquilat-Kumpol; and Chinchin, who has standing warrant of arrest for murder.
Aying said, Kumpol was suspected as responsible for the killing of army man PFC Ilisan, because the serial number of Cal. .45 pistol recovered from Kumpol belongs to PFC Ilisan. Kumpol and wife Jane with their companions are now detained at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Abuanan, Bago City.
Criminal cases of illegal possession of firearms and explosives were immediately filed by the government against Cellon and wife chinchin and their companions, at the office of Assistant provincial Prosecutor Ranela dela Fuente.
Aying also said, Kumpol was the suspect behind the series of atrocities, the latest were at the Philex Mining, and the killing of Ramon Salve, political officer of RPA-ABB, including a policeman. He has done a lot of atrocities before he was arrested. Expressing with a sigh of relief, Aying disclosed. In God’s time, genuine justice of the law really works.
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Don't be surprised if the clandestine National Democratic Front apparatus in Negros soon issues a statement declaring that Reniel Cellon (aka Cdr Kumpol) and his wife, Jane Magquilat y Flores, alias ChinChin, have been illegally arrested, suffered human righs abuse at the hands of their captors, and are covered by the GRP-NDF Joint Agreement on Security and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG). I would also expect the Negros chapter of Karapatan to rush to defense of the captured NPA cadre, providing them with legal counsel and issuing propaganda statements in their defense.
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