A HIGH-ranking leader of the New People’s Army (NPA) was released from Compostela Valley Provincial Jail on the order of a trial court after posting bail worth P200,000.
Zaldy Cañete alias Jingoy, a leader of NPA’s Pulang Bagani 4th Company, was released on Wednesday after his lawyers showed the release order signed by the Regional Trial Court executive judge and addressed to the warden.
He was charged with multiple murder, homicide, and kidnapping of various military personnel.
He was arrested on Jan. 30, 1010, after being wounded in a firefight in Barangay Sarmiento, Laak, Compostela Valley Province.
Based on the report of military, Cañete was a celebrated case of child combatant who was recruited at the age of 13 and who rose steadily and quickly within the ranks of the NPA. He surrendered after being wounded in a gunbattle with the Army’s 3rd Special Forces Battalion in Talaingod town in Davao del Norte.
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