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P100-K bounty up for radio anchor’s slay suspects

By Mary Judaline Partlow

November 12, 2019, 4:07 pm

<p><strong>BOUNTY OFFERED.</strong> The cellphone numbers of Negros Oriental provincial police director Col. Julian Entoma being flashed on the screen during a press conference on Monday (Nov. 11, 2019). Entoma offered reward money for information leading to the arrest of the gunman in the murder of Dumaguete broadcaster Dindo Generoso.<em> (Photo by Judy Flores Partlow)</em></p>

BOUNTY OFFERED. The cellphone numbers of Negros Oriental provincial police director Col. Julian Entoma being flashed on the screen during a press conference on Monday (Nov. 11, 2019). Entoma offered reward money for information leading to the arrest of the gunman in the murder of Dumaguete broadcaster Dindo Generoso. (Photo by Judy Flores Partlow)

DUMAGUETE CITY -- The reward money for information leading to the arrest of alleged gunman in the murder of radio anchor Dindo Generoso has increased to PHP100,000.

The Dumaguete Press Club announced Tuesday it will be giving PHP20,000 in addition to the PHP80,000 offered by Negros Oriental provincial police director Col. Julian Entoma.

Juancho Gallarde, a veteran journalist and president of the Dumaguete Press Club, said the money will be taken from the club’s coffers and was unanimously agreed upon by its members.

Entoma, meanwhile, on Monday afternoon told the City Peace and Order Council (CPOC) and reiterated the same at a press conference afterward that he is giving PHP80,000 or the equivalent of his one-month salary as a bounty for information leading to the arrest of Police Cpl. Roger Rubio.

Rubio has been tagged as the alleged triggerman in the murder of Generoso, who was shot and killed on Nov. 7, by two riding-in-tandem suspects while driving his car on the way to his early morning radio program in Barangay Piapi here.

Rubio remains at large, together with a fourth suspect, Tomasino C. Aledro, the owner of a Mitsubishi Strada pickup truck allegedly involved in the commission of the crime, said Entoma.

Two other suspects, Teddy Salaw, the brother-in-law of Aledro and the alleged driver of the pickup truck, and retired policeman Glenn Corsame, the motorcycle driver, are now under the custody of the police after they were arrested several hours after the fatal shooting of the radioman.

All four have been charged with murder, said Lt. Col. Wilfredo Alarcon, the OIC Dumaguete police chief.

Based on CCTV video footage from City Hall, the purported gunman had allegedly disembarked from the pickup truck parked along the boulevard and had transferred to a motorcycle that tailed Generoso.

The same vehicle was seen in the vicinity of the crime scene, as also seen in CCTV footage, police investigators had said.

Those who have information that would prove vital to the police investigation on Generoso’s murder can contact Entoma directly at his mobile phone numbers, 0920-666-010- and 0917-558-4265, which he volunteered to disclose to the public during the CPOC meeting.

Entoma said there is still no conclusive evidence on the motive behind the attack on the broadcast journalist but he announced that there seems to be another person or persons aside from the four suspects that might have a reason to want Generoso dead.

He did not name names but promised that he will do his best, even if his career and reputation are at stake, to pin down the perpetrators and the alleged mastermind before he retires from the service in less than a year.

Based on a trace run on Rubio’s background as a policeman, Entoma said it seems that the latter had been involved in some questionable dealings in the past and was even hardly seen at his assigned unit.

The alleged involvement of an active policeman and another one that has retired already is a disgrace to the organization and has tarnished the image of the Philippine National Police, he said.

Meanwhile, Gov. Roel Degamo and the city government, through the city council, are also willing to put up a bounty as well but they said they will have to source funds first. (PNA)

 

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