Captured NPA leader Villanueva* (See story)
[http://www.visayandailystar.com/]
Another top ranking leader of the New People's Army in southern Negros was arrested Sunday night by the police at a checkpoint in Brgy. Dancalan, Ilog, Negros Occidental.
Senior Supt. Milko Lirazan, provincial police director of Negros Occidental, yesterday identified the arrested suspect as Abraham Villanueva, secretary of the South West Front of the Komiteng Rehiyonal Negros.
Lirazan said Villanueva, alias “Tikboy, Gamay, Bods54,” has a pending arrest warrant for violation of Section 3, Paragraph 4 of PD 1613, or arson, issued by San Carlos Regional Trial Court Judge Kathrine Go, who also denied him bail.
Police investigations show that Villanueva, who was riding a motorcycle, tried to avoid the police checkpoint. But he was arrested later by the Ilog police headed by Inspector Renante Salgado after a brief chase, Lirazan said.
The arrest of Villanueva came more than a year after Reniel Cellon, alias Ka Kumpol, an elusive leader of the SWF Sentro de Grabidad Platoon, his wife, Mary Jane Magquilat, alias Chin Chin, and four others, were also arrested at a police checkpoint in Brgy. Dancalan, Ilog, in April last year.
Villanueva commands about 60 NPA rebels, many of them on inactive status, due to demoralization among their rank-and-file since the arrest of Cellon last year, Lt. Col. Ariel Reyes, 47 th Infantry Battalion commander, said.
The arrest of Villanueva, will create another leadership vacuum and further disorganization of SWF forces in southern Negros, Reyes said.
He claimed that Villanueva also participated in the ambush-slay of five 47IB soldiers in Sitio Omas, Brgy. Camindangan, Sipaly City, the raid and destruction of Sola family properties in Brgy. Camansi, Kabankalan City, among others.
Villanueva is now detained at the Ilog police jail.
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