NPA cadre gives up to police

By Mar T. Supnad

CERVANTES, Ilocos Sur– Another member of the underground communist movement surrendered to police here last week.

Senior Supt. Samuel B. Amoyen, Ilocos Sur police director, identified the surrenderee as Jordan Vasquez, 21, single of barangay Remedios here.

Amoyen said Vasquez gave himself up through the office of Mayor Benjamin Maggay.

 Chief Supt. Franklin Jesus Bucayu, police regional director for Region 1, said communist members and supporters recently surrendered in the province due to hardship in the underground movement. 

In 2009, two ranking members of the New People’s Army Ilocos-Cordillera Regional Committee, subjects of warrants of arrest by the local courts, surrendered in this province.

Bucayu encouraged other members and supporters of the New People’s Army to lay down their arms and return to mainstream society.