Mayor Bona Requests More Cops in Mangaldan

 REQUEST ENSUED EVEN BEFORE THE 3 MURDERS

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan – The lady town mayor here called the police's hierarchy to add more law enforcers in the town after three killings ensued from December 2, 2023 to January 4, 2024.

The request to beef up the police here have been requested by Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno even before Poblacion Barangay Chairwoman Melinda “Tonet” Morillo was shot to death while traversing the highway in Barangay Tebag here in December 7, 2023. 

MALEFACTOR. A suspect (extreme left) who murdered Kagawad Romeo Abrazaldo del Campo of Barangay Guilig in Mangaldan is being questioned by cops when he was arrested at a village in San Fabian after a running gun battle with the pursuing policemen.

The same request was reiterated by Parayno before Lt. Col. Roldan Cabatan, this town’s chief of police, after Brgy. Kagawad Romeo Abrazaldo del Campo of Barangay Guilig and Lina Biala Abrio of Brgy. Bantayan have been murdered last January 2, 2024 and January 4, 2024, respectively.

Parayno exhorted the law enforcers to buttress the police visibility in every village of the 30 barangays here and the incessant police patrol with the barangay security forces.

To strengthen the police visibility, the mayor bought lately two motorcycles and will buy a car to be used for roving the town to deter the criminals to pounce on hapless residents here.

Last year Parayno procured some motorcycles for the use of the same law enforcers.

 The two alleged killers of Abrio and del Campo have been arrested by the police.

 Abrio, 50, was stabbed to death at her lower side torso while riding a motorcycle in Brgy. Salay here last January 4. The male suspect is of legal age, jobless and resident here. Abrio was murdered because of a quarrel with the suspect who was a former lived in partner, investigator said. Concerned citizen rushed the wounded woman to the Region-1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan City but died while being operated there by the doctors.

While traversing in his green Honda CR-V the southern direction highway of Brgy. Salay at 11:10 pm of January 2, 2024, Kagawad del Campo was shot at his head.

He was declared dead upon arrival by the attending physician of R1MC-Annex at Bonuan Binloc in Dagupan City.

After the shooting, police operatives here had a running gun battle with the killer who was riding on a motorcycle. Upon reaching Brgy. Tempra-Guilig in San Fabian, Pangasinan, the suspect fell from his motorcycle because of a bullet wound on his thigh. He was rushed too at the R1MC in Dagupan City for treatment and eventual hospital arrest while recuperating.

Another source of this newspaper said the gunman was an employee of the Small Town Lottery (STL).

Mayor Parayno lauded the peace officers for the immediate solution of the dastardly act.

Only the two killers of former Poblacion Brgy. Chairwoman Morillo, 60, still remain scot-free. While driving her white Montero sports utility vehicle in December 7, 2023 on the stretches of Brgy. Tebag, Morillo was flagged down by the persons probably known to her before she was fatally shot several times by the gunman who was riding in tandem on a motorcycle.