COTABATO CITY — The Bangsamoro regional police will turn over to the Laguna Provincial Police Office a suspect in the brutal 2019 murder of a resident of Biñan City, arrested by policemen and soldiers in Barangay Buadi Didingun in Taraka, Lanao del Sur last week.
The detained suspect, a Maranao, was implicated in the killing of Karl Laurence Demerey in Biñan City in June 2019.
Two other accomplices, also Maranaos, had been arrested one after another by operatives of the Biñan City Police Office after the incident.
Brig. Gen. Romeo J. Macapaz, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, told reporters on Monday that the operation was assisted by troops from the Army’s 5th Infantry Battalion under Lt. Col. Eduard L. Sia-ed.
Mr. Macapaz said the suspect voluntarily yielded when combined personnel of the Lanao del Sur Provincial Police Office and the Taraka Municipal Police Station and soldiers from the 5th IB arrived at his hideout in Barangay Buadi Didingun and showed him a warrant for his arrest from the Regional Trial Court Branch 152 in Biñan City in Laguna, signed by Judge Jaime F. Banatin.
Mr. Macapaz said they will endorse him, through the police in Laguna, to the court that ordered his arrest. — John Felix M. Unson
