Wanted NPA member nabbed for killing two farmers

From the Sun Star-Bacolod (Dec 21): Wanted NPA member nabbed for killing two farmers

A MEMBER of the New People’s Army (NPA) was arrested in Barangay General Luna, Sagay City, Negros Occidental Wednesday night, December 19.

Ricky Cañete, 40, was served with an arrest warrant for two counts of murder and frustrated murder issued by Sagay City Regional Trial Court Branch 73 Judge Reginald Fuentebella on July 27, 2018.
Police Chief Inspector Antonio Benitez Jr. said the suspect was involved in the killing of two farmers and injured another farmer in the said village during an attack on the farm workers’ bunkhouse on May 22, 2016.

The NPA captured then later released a paramilitary man in Barangay General Luna. They also burned the two bunkhouses and mounted their flag on the fence.

Benitez said the arrested NPA member was one of the identified perpetrators who committed the crime.

He has other colleagues but one of them was killed a few months ago in the city while others remain at large, the city top cop said.

Benitez said Cañete hid for almost two years by transferring from one house to another to evade arrest from the authorities.

Cañete is now detained at the custodial facility of the police station but he will be transferred to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology once the commitment order comes out.

https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1779752