Vice mayor's aide tagged in Cagayan councilor’s slay

>> Tuesday, August 7, 2018



By Raymund Catindig and Liezle Basa Inigo

RIZAL, Cagayan -- One of the suspects in the killing of municipal councilor Alfredo Alvarez, 64 of Rizal town was arrested in a hot pursuit operation in Sampaguita, Solana, also of the province.
Chief Supt. Jose Mario Espino , Police Regional Office 2 director said suspect Jessie Labang, 48 was arrested by joint police elements of the Regional Intelligence Division, Provincial Intelligence Branch, Cagayan, Solana and Tuguegarao City on July 30 at about 9:30 p.m. in Barangay Sampaguita, Solana.
“Tuguegarao police prepared necessary documents needed in filing charges against the suspect,” he added.
This, after the son of the victim, Franklin Alvarez positively identified the suspects as Eloy Baloran of Gagabutan, Rizal and Jessie Labang of Sampaguita, Solana based on the CCTV footage showed to him by Tuguegarao Police.
Baloran, still at large is under manhunt operation by the PNP.
On July 29 at 6:45 p.m. Alvarez, 64, was driving his silver Honda Civic, bearing plate number WSR 941 traversing the said road heading to their house when suspects who were tailing the victim onboard a red Honda TMX 155, without plate number shot the victim several times hitting the different parts of his body causing his instant death.
Labang an alleged bodyguard of Rizal Vice Mayor Joel Ruma was charged with murder Tuesday in connection with the killing of Alvarez on July 29.
In 2013, Labang was arrested at a beerhouse in Solana for carrying a Cal. 45 pistol. 
Joel Ruma denied Labang was his bodyguard, saying the suspect has been employed as a janitor at the municipal government since when he was mayor in 2013.
The incumbent mayor of Rizal is Ruma’s wife, Brenda.
Ruma refused to comment on the killing of Alvarez, which probers said could be politically motivated.
Meanwhile, in Abra, Jovito Terredano, 62, former councilor in San Juan town, was found dead with a gunshot wound in the neck in Sitio Ngabao, South Poblacion also on Monday.

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