Police officials are expecting a big adverse impact on the operational capability of communist rebels operating in Panay Island following the arrest of the wife of a top leader of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Western Visayas.
Chief Superintendent John Bulalacao (PNP / MANILA BULLETIN)
But Chief Supt. John Bulalacao, director of the Western Visayas regional police, said they are also ready on the possible retaliatory attack of the communist rebels with the arrest of Maria Theresa Drilon Cabales.
“I have already ordered all police commanders to be alert against possible retaliatory attack since the person arrested is a wife of a top rebel leader in the region,” Bulalacao told the Manila Bulletin in a phone interview.
Cabales, wife of Central Front Committee secretary Roberto Cabales, was collared by joint police and military intelligence operatives on Friday in Barangay Timawa in Molo District of Iloilo City.
“Her arrest has caused a big dent for the party committee and their overall activities are affected since she is holding a sensitive position being a medical staff and as a liaison who is providing financial and medical support to the party members who were hospitalized,” said Bulalacao.
The operation to arrest Cabales started when the intelligence community got hold of information that she was seen in Molo, Iloilo City.
Armed with an arrest warrant issued by a court in Capiz for a case of rebellion, security officers arrest Cabales when they chanced upon her crossing a street in Barangay Timawa.
The rebellion case was in connection with the attack on soldiers in Barangay Tacayan in Tapaz town of Capiz last year that led to the death of an Army trooper and wounding of two other soldiers.
Bulalacao said a background check revealed that Cabales is member of the Regional Medical Staff of communist rebels operating in Panay who is in charge of medical training and medical support and different front committees in Western Visayas.
“She was a former Catholic Youth leader in the early 180’s and became the organizer of the Basic Christian Community in Negros Occidental,” said Bulalacao.
Cabales, police said, is a native of Bacolod City.
Cabales is expected to be presented to the court which issued the arrest warrant against her.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2018/06/09/wife-of-top-npa-leader-in-west-visayas-arrested/
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