5 Killers ng Pulis M'lang Huli

By Mortz C. Ortigoza, Jr.

Thanks for the immediate action of the M'lang policemen for the arrest this predawn of the five motorcycle robbers  who gunned down Wednesday night Police Sergeant Jovet Galan.
According to Alikabok J. Alikabok, my confidential source, Galan saw already the three guys suspiciously standing at the Lika Bridge that he even asked them why they were there. Then he proceeded to bring his wife who was riding with him on his motorcycle to his house nearby the bridge.

ROBBED AND SLAIN - Senior Police Officer -1 Jovet Galan. He is an alumnus of
 Southern Baptist College in M'lang , Cotabato Province.

"Nag backing kag balik didto sa mga aktor kumpiyansa pagpalapit niya liwat, unahan siya pusil . Dughan dayun igo nya.kag birahan pa gid cya sa kilid kay tatlo gali.pagtumba niya, kinuha nalang dayun motor niya. Nataranta yata mga aktor, didto sumakay tanan sa motor ( RS125) ni Jovet bilin nila ila Baja motor, " my source told me in the vernacular Ilonggo.
He said the robbers took also the service firearm of Galan.

The source said the police and the Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team (BPAT) were on their feet up to the middle of the night by diligently watching the escape routes of the suspects.
Then they saw two Muslim guys appeared from the bushes and walked at the highway in the Christian village Tibao.

"Puro lutak.upod pa gali sang mga carnnaper to didto sa area pagtabo. Daw ila look - out kag daw amo dapat ato naka assign tig kuha kag magsakay sa motor nga ila  gin pusil"

After the tactical interrogation by the cops in M'lang, they learned that the three conspirators were hiding in a safe house in Matalam town and their residences in Kabacan town.
The police immediately launched at predawn today a man haunt operation riding on the 36 hours warrant less arrest from the time of the discovery of the grisly murder.

"Nakuha ta ang isa sa safehouse nila sa Kilada , Matalam.then ang apat (three ?) didto sa Kabacan.positively identified ang gunman". Dal on to karun sa aga sa crime lab for paraffin test.Amigo ko gid to si Jovet"
One of the suspects even bragged to the mobile phone of one of the two arrested in Tibao that he killed a cop.
Alikabok J. Alikabok cited that one of the two killers sold the motorcycle in Pikit, Province of Cotabato for P15, 000.
"Five of them will divide the P15,000 and each will have P3,000 at the expense of killing somebody. That's heinous!".

Many residents of the rustic M'lang became victims of motorcycle robberies where some of them murdered by these malefactors.
One of the killers who lived in Kabacan was suspected to kill too a male resident of M'lang when he was robbed in Kabacan a few years ago.
A week ago two teenagers in Kabacan were shot to death when their motorcycle was forcefully taken from them.
"Indi lang mga kinawat nga motor, pati mga drugs didto ginabaligya didto sa Pikit. Dapat si President Rodrigo Duterte should know about these events," he told me.
The youngest and oldest of these five dregs of the society are 25 to 45 years old.
They are believed to be members of a huge and organized syndicate operating in the province.

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