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SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur — An area businessman alleged to have masterminded the killing of retired Colonel Samuel Afdal, a gold miner in Agusan del Sur, was arrested by police on Monday afternoon in Bukidnon.
Main Ralph Jezen Perez, police chief of Bunawan city, instructed Jay Solis in a stay broadcast over 89.7 DXGP-FM radio on Tuesday that Ryan Mark Baylon, president of JB Earthmovers, Inc. was already of their fingers after his arrest in a non-public resort in Barangay Talahiron of Kibawe city, Bukidnon.
Baylon, a enterprise affiliate of Afdal, is the final of 4 suspects to fall into the fingers of authorities.
Quezon Metropolis Regional Trial Courtroom Department 85 Presiding Decide Juris Dilinila-Callanta, ordered his arrest on April 5, together with that of former New Individuals’s Military insurgent Rosalino Degracia, for the Oct. 26, 2021 ambush of Afdal in Rosario, Agusan del Sur.
Degracia had surrendered to the Prison Investigation and Detection Group in Davao Metropolis final April. One different suspect, Alemar Awado, had been detained in Bislig Metropolis, Surigao del Sur, for one more homicide case.
Baylon didn’t resist arrest when served with the warrant round 5 p.m. on Monday, mentioned Perez, including that the homicide suspect was with feminine resort employees on the time.
From Kibawe, Baylon was dropped at Bunawan.
Perez mentioned the arrest got here 26 days after their station obtained a replica of the warrant from the Quezon Metropolis court docket.
Perez added that Baylon complained about having some irregular coronary heart rhythm once they arrived on the Bunawan police station. On Tuesday, he was escorted for a medical checkup.
“We’re ready for a dedication order from the decide of Regional Trial Courtroom Department 85 in Quezon Metropolis earlier than we escort him there,” Perez mentioned.
Afdal, generally known as Saga amongst associates, was president of Philsaga Mining Corp., which extracted gold in a tenement in Rosario. He offered his pursuits within the firm and began a brand new one, Rosario Manobo Mining Corp. (RMMC).
Afdal was driving alongside an uphill highway when ambushed in Barangay Santa Cruz. Though hit, the previous soldier managed to drive towards the RMMC base camp and sought assist. He was rushed to a neighborhood hospital, the place he later lapsed right into a coma and died on Nov. 15, 2021.
The indictment towards the three accused was primarily based primarily on the confession of former NPA guerrilla Jeffrey Mamerto, the alleged gunman.
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Mamerto had pointed to Baylon because the mastermind of the kill plot, allegedly providing his former NPA colleagues Degracia and Awado P200,000 to do the hit job. Mamerto, in flip, was contracted for P50,000 to tug the set off towards Afdal.
