CABANATUAN
CITY, Nueva Ecija – Police operatives arrested in Angono, Rizal on Friday the
former live-in partner of a 21-year-old woman suspected of killing her and
dumping her body in an irrigation canal last Sunday.
Police Superintendent Pedro Soliba,
Cabanatuan police chief, identified the suspect as Melvin dela Cruz, 26, of
Purok Ilang-ilang, Barangay Mayapyap Sur this city.
Dela Cruz was arrested at Block 5, Lot
14, Herald Village, Angono by joint operatives of the Cabanatuan police and the
Criminal Investigation Detection Team
led by Senior Inspector Ferdinand Mendoza. He did not resist arrest.
Dela Cruz, a tricycle driver, was
tagged for the brutal murder of Gladys Bernardo, 21, of Barangay
Caalibangbangan who went missing on August 17. Her body was found floating in
an irrigation canal of the National Irrigation Administration in the same
barangay last Wednesday.
A day after, barangay officials went
to the police station accompanying witnesses who executed affidavits and
identified Dela Cruz as the one who murdered Bernardo. (Manny Galvez)
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