NPA leader nabbed in Agusan del Sur
Credit to Author: MASIDING NOOR YAHYA| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:34:23 +0000
DAVAO CITY: A high-ranking female official of the New People’s Army (NPA) was arrested in a joint police and military operation at the San Francisco Public Market in Agusan del Sur on Saturday. She is now in the custody of
the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Digos City.
Police identified the suspect as Rachel Cortez Daguman alias Kumander Jasmin, 44, secretary of Front Committee 51, Sub-regional Command, Southern Mindanao Regional Committee (SMRC).
Lt. Col. Ernesto Castillo, the chief of the Digos City Police Station, told reporters Kumander Jasmin was the former head of Regional Peasant Bureau (RPB), and a resident of Coronon in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur.
“She is number one in PRRD’s list,” Castillo added.
He said Jasmin has a pending warrant of arrest for robbery with homicide with Criminal Case 160 (08) issued by Regional Trial Court, 11th Judicial region, Branch 19 in Digos City, Davao del Sur dated Nov. 28, 2008 with no bail recommended.
According to March 2015 media reports, Jasmin led rebels under Guerrilla Front 6 of the North Central Mindanao Regional Committee who flagged down several vehicles on March 8, 2015, along Davao-Buda road in Barangay Palacapao, Quezon town in Bukidnon.
The reports said they burned three prime movers (containing one Bantuanon truck loaded with bananas, one trans-special truck, one FSTA truck loaded with cartons); three wing-van trucks (containing a Nestlé van loaded with milk products, one Purefoods van loaded with hotdogs, one van loaded with drums); and one San Miguel 10-wheeler truck loaded with Red Horse Beer.
Two of the trucks were bound for Bukidnon while five others were heading to Davao.
Castillo said their personnel are on alert status for possible retaliation of the NPA. |