Friday, February 08, 2008

Nueva Ecija's most wanted falls

The long arms of the law has caught up with the Nueva Ecija's most wanted man who got to ellude arrest for over 10 years, a suspect in the striong of murder and frustrated murder charges in connection with a land disipute in Gapan City, police said on Thursday.

Senior Supt. Napoleon Taas, officer-in-charge of the Nueva Ecija police office, the suspect Patricio Quiambao,60, was arrested in the mountainous village of Pita, Dinalupihan, Bataan by a composite team from the police's regional intelligence division under Supt. Pierre Bucsit, the
Nueva Ecija provincial intelligence branch led by Chief Insp. Alex Mariano and Bataan 303rd provincial mobile group.

The arrest, he said, was made on the strength of a warrant issued by Gapan City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 36 Judge Arturo Bernardo. Taas said the suspect's arrest was in line with the directive of PNP Chief Director General Avelino Razon Jr. and Region 3 police director, Chief Supt. Errol Pan to focus more on manhunt operations as outlined in the “Mamang Pulis” program.

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