CABANATUAN CITY – The Nueva Ecija police provincial office (NEPPO) is now investigating a group called “Bravo for Justice”, an organization where alleged killers of Licab town Vice Mayor Luisito Caraang belong, a ranking police officer disclosed on Wednesday.
“We can not say right now that the group is an organized crime gang,” said Senior Supt. Roberto Aliggayu, Nueva Ecija police director.
He said that the name of the organization first cropped up when a neophyte, identified as Sonny Pascua of Victoria, Tarlac, told Task Force Caraang that he was being recruited to be one of its members. To acquire full-pledged membership, Pascua reportedly told probers that he was tasked to monitor the movement of VM Caraang and report it to the group before dawn on Oct. 9.
Caraang was killed at about 5:10 a.m. that day.
“But he was compartmentalized,” Aliggayu said.
“This means that Pascua was blind on the real motive behind his mission. All he had to do is to find out if Vice Mayor Caraang was on his daily jogging and report it to Peralta.”
Peralta is Francisco Peralta who is reportedly called Supremo in BFJ. He is the brother of Ricardo Peralta, the alleged leader of Red Vigilante Group (RVG) blamed to over 40 cases of killing suspected illegal drug peddlers in Nueva Ecija, particularly Gapan City a few years back.
Their patriarch, Arcadio Perlata, used to lead the communist movement in northern Luzon, Aliggayu added.
He said that based on their investigation, among the members of BFJ were remnants of Alakdan II and Kamagong groups, two of the reported organized gangs allegedly involved in gun for hire and robbery holdup activities.
“But we do not know who the other members of Bravo For Justice are so we cannot say it’s a criminal gang. What we know is that some remnants of Alakdan and Kamagong are also members of this group [BFJ],” Aliggayu said in the vernacular.
He was referring to Peralta, Arturo Bernardino, Virgilio Domingo alias Beo Samiento, Jerremy Itan and Nestor Soriano Jr., who were charged, along with Lican town Councilor Alexander Ventura for the killing of Caraang.
BFJ members, he said, have identical tattoos on their left arms.
“We can not say right now that the group is an organized crime gang,” said Senior Supt. Roberto Aliggayu, Nueva Ecija police director.
He said that the name of the organization first cropped up when a neophyte, identified as Sonny Pascua of Victoria, Tarlac, told Task Force Caraang that he was being recruited to be one of its members. To acquire full-pledged membership, Pascua reportedly told probers that he was tasked to monitor the movement of VM Caraang and report it to the group before dawn on Oct. 9.
Caraang was killed at about 5:10 a.m. that day.
“But he was compartmentalized,” Aliggayu said.
“This means that Pascua was blind on the real motive behind his mission. All he had to do is to find out if Vice Mayor Caraang was on his daily jogging and report it to Peralta.”
Peralta is Francisco Peralta who is reportedly called Supremo in BFJ. He is the brother of Ricardo Peralta, the alleged leader of Red Vigilante Group (RVG) blamed to over 40 cases of killing suspected illegal drug peddlers in Nueva Ecija, particularly Gapan City a few years back.
Their patriarch, Arcadio Perlata, used to lead the communist movement in northern Luzon, Aliggayu added.
He said that based on their investigation, among the members of BFJ were remnants of Alakdan II and Kamagong groups, two of the reported organized gangs allegedly involved in gun for hire and robbery holdup activities.
“But we do not know who the other members of Bravo For Justice are so we cannot say it’s a criminal gang. What we know is that some remnants of Alakdan and Kamagong are also members of this group [BFJ],” Aliggayu said in the vernacular.
He was referring to Peralta, Arturo Bernardino, Virgilio Domingo alias Beo Samiento, Jerremy Itan and Nestor Soriano Jr., who were charged, along with Lican town Councilor Alexander Ventura for the killing of Caraang.
BFJ members, he said, have identical tattoos on their left arms.
