From the Philippine News Agency (Sep 27): Police arrest bombing suspect in North Cotabato
Police authorities in Kabacan, North Cotabato announced the arrest of the primary suspect in the Nov. 2014 bombing here that left a college student dead and 17 others injured.
Senior Inspector Ronnie Cordero, Kabacan town police chief, identified the suspect as Gardo Usop, 49, also known as Gardo Sampulna, a resident of Sitio Lumayong, Barangay Kayaga, Kabacan, North Cotabato.
Cordero said Usop was arrested with the help of Barangay Kayaga chairperson Bong Bacana. He did not resist arrest.
Usop was facing murder and multiple frustrated murder charges before the sala of Judge Alandrex Betoyoa of Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 16 who issued an arrest warrant against Usop on April 20 last year.
Speaking to reporters in North Cotabato District Jail where he was committed, Usop vehemently denied the charges.
A powerful improvised bomb was set off at the stairs of highway overpass in Poblacion Kabacan on Nov. 16, 2014 that killed Monique Mantawil, 19, Development Communication Course student of University of Southern Mindanao (USM).
Police said the suspect had been identified based on witnesses' accounts. Two of his alleged companions remained at large.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=926380
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