CABANATUAN CITY, Nueva Ecija, Oct. 11 (PNA) - A suspect in the controversial “cooler killings” in Laguna was arrested by combined forces from the Nueva Ecija and Tarlac police on Sunday.
Senior Superintendent Roberto Aliggayu, director of the Nueva Ecija Police Provincial Office (NEPPO), identified the suspect as Sonny Boy Corpuz, 26, a resident of Barangay Bakal 1, Talavera, Nueva Ecija who was ranked No. 2 in the province's most wanted list.
Corpuz was the co-accused of his father Bayani Corpuz in the gruesome killing of furniture workers Vilma Badialo and Letecia Lupian on June 22, 2011 whose bodies were found stuffed inside a freezer in San Pablo City.
They allegedly took a Lucida van owned by the victims’ employer and some P70,000 and 300 Euros.
Aliggayu said the younger Corpuz was arrested in a relative’s house in Barangay Baldios, Sta. Ignacia, Tarlac by virtue of arrest warrants issued by Regional Trial Court Branch 37 Judge Nelson Tribiana.
With P140,000 on his head, the suspect is also a co-accused of his father in a string of cases, including robbery with homicide and double frustrated homicide and murder in Nueva Ecija, Aliggayu said.
Prior to his stay in Tarlac, Aliggayu said the suspect sought refuge in another relative's house in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro where he was reportedly also accused of robbery with violence against a person last March.
He was also sentenced to five years imprisonment for illegal possession of firearms under criminal case no. 1268 by the Municipal Trial Court of Talavera in February 2010, he added.
Aliggayu said the Corpuzes allegedly robbed three businessmen and reportedly sexually assaulted two women.
They were also charged for the killing of local peacekeeper Ignacio Ariola Eugenio Sr., 54, of Barangay Bakal 1, Talavera. (PNA)
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