Mindanaotoday.com | CIDG-10: 2 Bukidnon village officials face murder cases
By: Franck Dick Rosete
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Two incumbent barangay chairpersons in Don Carlos town in Bukidnon who were accused for two counts of murder were arrested by the authorities in Poblacion, brgy. San Isidro, Talakag, also in Bukidnon on Tuesday, Jan. 17.
In a report sent by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) Camiguin Provincial Field Unit, the suspects were identified as Saturnino Cuesta, 55, the chairman of Barangay Mahayahay; and Rudyrex Cinco, 42 who is also the chairman of Barangay Buyot.
According to the CIDG, Cinco is the leader and Cuesta is a member of Cinco criminal group engaged in gun for hire and land grabbing activities in the province of Bukidnon.
The said group is unlisted to the Directorate for Intelligence (DI), said Capt. Noel Oclarit, the team leader of CIDG Camiguin.
The said group is also the subject of the complaints of Allen Capuyan, National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) chairperson, during the meeting with the local government units and police units in the area on December 12 last year.
CIDG said the said criminal group was responsible in the alleged land grabbing of ancestral domain being tilled by the tribal residents in the barangays of Imbayao and Buyot, both of Don Carlos, Bukidnon.
The two suspects were arrested through Oplan Pagtugis and Salikop launched by the CIDG Bukidnon, together with the other police units by serving the warrant of arrest.
Cinco and Cuesta are currently detained at the custodial facility of Talakag Municipal Police Station. (MT)
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