{"id":773,"date":"2015-10-08T01:26:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T01:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intranet.untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/?p=773"},"modified":"2015-10-08T01:26:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T01:26:53","slug":"cops-instrumental-in-the-arrest-of-reyes-brothers-lauded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Cops Instrumental in the Arrest of Reyes Brothers, Lauded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_777\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?aam_media=777\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-777\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?aam_media=777&amp;size=full\" alt=\"PNP awards another set of Heroism and Merit Medals to police officers who have recently shown exemplary service (Photo from PNP-PIO).\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-777\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PNP awards another set of Heroism and Merit Medals to police officers who have recently shown exemplary service (Photo from PNP-PIO).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Philippine National Police (PNP) lauded on October 5 the invaluable service of three police officers who were instrumental in the arrest of two fugitive murder suspects in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>PSupt. Zacarias Noel Villegas and PCInsp. Julius Garcia of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)\u2019s Detective and Special Operation Division received the Medalya ng Kadakilaan (PNP Heroism Meda) while  PSSupt. Charlo Collado of the Directorate for Intelligence was given the Medalya ng Kagalingan (PNP Merit Medal).<\/p>\n<p>The three officers helped in the apprehension of former Palawan governor Mario Joel Reyes and former Coron, Palawan mayor Mario Reyes who were included in the PNP Big 4 high-profile suspects. <\/p>\n<p>The Reyes brothers are the main suspects in the killing of journalist and broadcaster Gerardo Ortega last January 24, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The police officers cooperated in the pinning down of the exact whereabouts of the Reyes brothers in Phuket, Thailand. The suspects were arrested on September 20, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>On the same occasion, the PNP also handed PNP Merit Medals to 12 more CIDG personnel for the apprehension of Shabbir Valdez Ponferrada last September 25. Ponferrada is the prime suspect in the series of carnapping, and taxi-related robbery and rape incidents in Metro Manila. The awardees are:<br \/>\n\u00b7 PSupt Danilo P Macerin<br \/>\n\u00b7 PCInsp Rommel G Macatlang<br \/>\n\u00b7 PCInsp Eliot E Eusebio<br \/>\n\u00b7 PCInsp Vitalio B Pagaran III<br \/>\n\u00b7 SPO3 Ramil Palisoc<br \/>\n\u00b7 SPO2 Henry Bertillo<br \/>\n\u00b7 SPO1 Dioscoro Bertos<br \/>\n\u00b7 SPO1 Ubaldo Macatangay Jr.<br \/>\n\u00b7 SPO1 Lowell Luvin Farinas<br \/>\n\u00b7 SPO1 Ignacio Santos Jr.<br \/>\n\u00b7 PO3 Ringo Medalla<br \/>\n\u00b7 PO3 Maximo Seda<\/p>\n<p>Another batch of PNP Merit Medal awardees were also recognized for the successful buy bust operation against Mikko Tiu Tan where they seized Php 100 million worth of shabu. The awardees, all from the Anti-Illegal Drugs and Operations Task Force, are:<br \/>\n\u00b7 PCInsp Lorenzo C Bacia<br \/>\n\u00b7 PInsp Conrado H Cargdag Jr.<br \/>\n\u00b7 SPO4 Alejandro Gerardo R Liwanag<br \/>\n\u00b7 SPO2 Jerry E Barit<br \/>\n\u00b7 PO3 Miguel T Perez III<\/p>\n<p>(Source: PNP-PIO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine National Police (PNP) lauded on October 5 the invaluable service of three police officers who were instrumental in the arrest of two fugitive murder suspects in Thailand. PSupt. Zacarias Noel Villegas and PCInsp. Julius Garcia of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)\u2019s Detective and Special Operation Division received the Medalya ng Kadakilaan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[131,151,167,27,28,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untvweb.com\/songsforheroes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}