ANGELES CITY – The recovery of the missing head of a 22-year-old call center agent in a creek in Mabalacat town last Saturday has bolstered allegations that her 30-year-old alleged boyfriend, also a call center agent, had beheaded her in a motel in this city last Oct. 2.
Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan said the discovery of missing head of victim Katrina Gantan, an employee of Sutherland at Clark Freeport whose headless body was found in a room at Miyabe Court motel here, was based on the theory that suspect Adonis Reyes had dumped it somewhere between his home at Fiesta Village in Barangay Cutcut and the motel. Reyes also worked at Sutherland.
“Investigators gathered from witnesses that Reyes left the motel at about 9 p.m., while the suspect’s wife said he arrived home about 10 p.m. This meant that if Reyes was the culprit, he had only an hour within which to get rid of the head and so the search for it was narrowed down to the route towards his home where he arrived an hour later,” Pamintuan noted.
Police found the head in a plastic bag in a creek underneath the Morales bridge along the MacArhtur highway in Poblacion, Mabalacat, a major route towards the suspect’s residence.
City police director Senior Supt. Danny Bautista said, however, that as of yesterday, Reyes refused to admit to the crime.
The instrument used for beheading Gantan was still missing.
The head was “reunited” with her body which has not yet been buried and laid in wake at Filipiniana funeral homes in Dau in Mabalacat.
“The father did not want to bury the body because he still had hopes the head would be found,” said city information officer Deo Sambilay.
Reyes was arrested by the police last Tuesday, after a bellboy from the motel had identified him as Gantan’s companion before her headless body was found.
A tricycle driver told police that Reyes was his passenger carrying a plastic bag from the motel on the same night.
Pamintuan said that the head was found by combined police teams from his city and Mabalacat . He earlier beefed up security measures by establishing more check points and fielding more mobile patrols citywide.
This year, several foreigners were also victimized by criminals in this city, including three who were killed by suspected serial killer Mark Dizon who is now under detention and undergoing trial.
Pamintuan said, however, that “there is no crime wave” in Angeles.
“Angeles is a progressing city. When I first became mayor in 1992, the city’s population was only about 206,000, but now it’s 345,000 which means a 60 percent increase. We used to have only 250 policemen, and this number has increased only to 460. This means that our ratio is one cop per 800 population,” the mayor noted.
Pamintuan called on local folk to help lawmen be vigilant against criminals not only in public, but also in private areas.
Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan said the discovery of missing head of victim Katrina Gantan, an employee of Sutherland at Clark Freeport whose headless body was found in a room at Miyabe Court motel here, was based on the theory that suspect Adonis Reyes had dumped it somewhere between his home at Fiesta Village in Barangay Cutcut and the motel. Reyes also worked at Sutherland.
“Investigators gathered from witnesses that Reyes left the motel at about 9 p.m., while the suspect’s wife said he arrived home about 10 p.m. This meant that if Reyes was the culprit, he had only an hour within which to get rid of the head and so the search for it was narrowed down to the route towards his home where he arrived an hour later,” Pamintuan noted.
Police found the head in a plastic bag in a creek underneath the Morales bridge along the MacArhtur highway in Poblacion, Mabalacat, a major route towards the suspect’s residence.
City police director Senior Supt. Danny Bautista said, however, that as of yesterday, Reyes refused to admit to the crime.
The instrument used for beheading Gantan was still missing.
The head was “reunited” with her body which has not yet been buried and laid in wake at Filipiniana funeral homes in Dau in Mabalacat.
“The father did not want to bury the body because he still had hopes the head would be found,” said city information officer Deo Sambilay.
Reyes was arrested by the police last Tuesday, after a bellboy from the motel had identified him as Gantan’s companion before her headless body was found.
A tricycle driver told police that Reyes was his passenger carrying a plastic bag from the motel on the same night.
Pamintuan said that the head was found by combined police teams from his city and Mabalacat . He earlier beefed up security measures by establishing more check points and fielding more mobile patrols citywide.
This year, several foreigners were also victimized by criminals in this city, including three who were killed by suspected serial killer Mark Dizon who is now under detention and undergoing trial.
Pamintuan said, however, that “there is no crime wave” in Angeles.
“Angeles is a progressing city. When I first became mayor in 1992, the city’s population was only about 206,000, but now it’s 345,000 which means a 60 percent increase. We used to have only 250 policemen, and this number has increased only to 460. This means that our ratio is one cop per 800 population,” the mayor noted.
Pamintuan called on local folk to help lawmen be vigilant against criminals not only in public, but also in private areas.
