P100T reward up for wanted ex-mayor

Jun Ariolo N. Aguirre
Kalibo, Aklan- The Philippine National Police Task Force Usig had officially issued a P100 thousand reward for the information that will lead to the arrest of former Lezo Mayor Fred Arcenio.

During the weekly police conference here Tuesday, Aklan PNP Sr. Supt Benigno Durana said that the police have intensified its campaign to arrest Arcenio suspect in the killing of Bombo radio station manager Herson Hinolan in November 2004.

“The Task Force Usig is studying all means to arrest Arcenio with intelligence reports that some of his friends both in the military and the PNP might harbor him. The task force is also bent on studying possible leakage of information that will hamper Arcenio’s arrest,” Durana said.

Arcenio before he was elected as mayor of Lezo town in 2004, he is known to be a member of the Military Intelligence Group of the Philippine Army’s 12th Infantry Batallion. The Kalibo Regional Trial Court against the former mayor has issued a warrant of arrest for murder case.

To reinforce the PNP national office, Durana bared that he is also organizing a local PNP task force to oversee local situations and how it could help the national PNP in speeding up the resolution of the media killings.

Meanwhile, Durana bared that they are also doing their best to also resolve the killings of broadcaster Roland Ureta, a program manager of RMN—dyKR who was killed in Lezo, Aklan in January 2001.