BAGUIO CITY – For allegedly attempting to have her elder sister assassinated, a teacher in Abra was arrested by Baguio policemen in an entrapment operation conducted in Ilocos Sur.
This came after the killers she had allegedly hired took pity on the supposed victim, Veronica Iban Ganao.
The hired killers were overwhelmed by pity when they saw Veronica’s deformed face with one blind eye, which reportedly came as a result of the first attempt on her life in February last year.
Chief Supt. Eugene G. Martin, director of the Police Regional Office in the Cordillera, identified the alleged mastermind as Herminia Iban Daproza, 40, separated, teacher, native of Dilong, Tubo, Abra, and resident of Zone V, Bangued, Abra.
Veronica also hails from Dilong, Tubo, Abra, but now resides at Tapaw East, Quirino Hill, Baguio City. Confessed gun-for-hire Michael Marquez Bermudez, barangay kagawad, of Patiao, Peñarrubia, Abra, said he and his cohort, Nomer Biendema, his neighbor, were hired by Daproza to kill her elder sister in exchange for P75, 000. T
hey alleged that Daproza had given them a downpayment of P10,000 when they met in the Baguio First Hotel last July 10.
They said she also promised them a second job, which is to assassinate her elder sister’s husband, Lorenzo, if the first assignment is successful.
However, while casing her residence, the hired killers took pity on Veronica after seeing her pathetic condition.
They saw her taking care of her two grandchildren in their house and realized she is already old, with a deformed face and one blind on eye.
They forgot their evil scheme as they were overwhelmed by pity.
After talking to their supposed victim, the two hired killers agreed to surrender to the police and turn witness in the prosecution of the case against the alleged mastermind.
During the investigation, the two men told police probers that Daproza also hatched the failed plot on the life of her elder sister, who was hit on the head with a blunt object by unidentified assailants in their hometown last year.
While the investigation was going on, Bermudez maintained contact with Daproza through a mobile phone and gave her the false information that they had already killed her elder sister.
A team of the Baguio City Police Office and the two hired guns, went to Narvacan, Ilocos Sur to conduct an entrapment operation on the alleged mastermind who agreed to give them another partial payment of P7,500.
While on their way to Ilocos Sur, the hired killers and Daproza agreed to meet at a beach resort in Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur, where she was eventually arrested.
The alleged mastermind is now detained in the Baguio City jail for two counts of attempted murder, but the motive of the failed slay attempts is not yet known because the suspect and the victim refused to divulge the cause of their feud.
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