GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- A suspect in the killing of a police officer in Koronadal City December last year was arrested in Barangay Apopong here Wednesday afternoon.
Police Brig. Gen. Eliseo Rasco, regional director of the Police Regional Office (PRO)-12, on Thursday said suspect Jimboy Relativo, 36, was nabbed at around 1:38 p.m. in a raid at a house in the said village.
He said Relativo, who has a standing warrant of arrest for murder in Polomolok town in South Cotabato, was the No. 2 top most wanted person in the area.
“Incidentally, he was one of the suspects in the murder of Police Officer 1 (now patrolman) Diamond Muega,” Rasco said in a report released by PRO-12.
Muega, who was a warrant officer, was conducting a surveillance regarding the presence of a wanted person in Barangay General Paulino Santos, Koronadal City last Dec. 5 when he was gunned down by suspected hired killers.
Rasco said the suspect, who was listed as a laborer and a resident of Salada subdivision, Barangay Cannery in Polomolok, was earlier spotted in Barangay Apopong by concerned residents.
He said elements from the Polomolok municipal police station led by Police/Lt. Col. Samuel Cadungon, and the Regional Intelligence Unit-12 immediately conducted a surveillance, which led to Relativo's eventual arrest.
The official said Relativo was nabbed by virtue of an arrest warrant for murder issued by Judge Adelbert Santillan of the Regional Trial Court Branch 63 in Polomolok on Dec. 4, 2018.
He added that the suspect is currently under the custody of the Polomolok municipal police station, pending the processing of the murder case in Koronadal City and the issuance of commitment order to the provincial jail. (PNA)
