Cops arrest suspects in prosecutor's death

SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan – The police here had arrested two suspects behind the killing more than a year ago of a graft investigator and prosecutor from this town.

Chief Inspector Chito Esmenda, the town police chief, told The STAR yesterday that arrested were Benjamin Nuyda, 36, and Felipe Tamayo, 50, both residents of Barangay Cayanga this town for the killing of lawyer Alejo Dojillo.

Dojillo was on board a tricycle on his way to a bus terminal heading towards the Office of the Ombudsman where he worked when he was gunned down by two motorcycle-riding men. Dojillo was the graft investigator and prosecutor at the office of the Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon and a resident of Barangay Nibaliw Vidal here.

Esmenda said the suspects were arrested based on a warrant of arrest issued by Judge Genoveva Maramba of the Regional Trial Court Branch 44 in Dagupan City.

The suspects posted P40,000 each cash bond for their temporary liberty.

The case took a year before the issuance of the arrest warrant was made as the murder case filed at the office of Prosecutor Gonzalo Marata was downgraded to homicide.            – Eva Visperas