Suspect in gunslay of Mayor Jolly, aide nabbed

By October 16, 2017Headlines, News

UMINGAN— After 10 years, a suspect in the killing of former City Mayor Julian Resuello and his civilian security aide Eulogio Martinez in 2007, was finally arrested.

Joint police and Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) operatives have arrested Tuesday, Loida Gonzales Mendoza, 66, a Filipino-American midwife who is a retired United States (US) Navy personnel, suspected leader of a suspected gun-for-hire group.

The arrest warrant, dated Sept. 12, 2017, was issued by Presiding Judge Jaime Dojillo Jr of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 57 in San Carlos City with no bail recommended.

P/ Chief Inspector Crispin Banes, CIDG Pangasinan head, said was nabbed in her residence in Rizal St., Barangay Poblacion East this town on the strength of an arrest warrant.

Mendoza is among the accused in the double murder of then Mayor Resuello and Martinez, on April 28, 2007 during the coronation night of Miss San Carlos while at the city auditorium.

Four other persons were wounded in the gun attack.

Banes said Mendoza is the first among the accused in the double murder case of Resuello and Martinez.

Mendoza is reportedly the leader of Gonzales gun-for-hire group that operated in Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija principally as confirmed by Lupao Police Station in Nueva Ecija, Banes said.

He said Mendoza was also identified by the police as protector/financier of Pogito gun-for-hire group.

P/Chief Inspector Jose Abaya II, chief of police of Umingan, said it is possible that Mendoza’s group also had victims in Lupao since her group was tagged as a newly identified criminal group in that town.

The Umingan police called on relatives of victims of the suspect’s gun-for-hire groups to come out in the open and testify against the woman gang leader.

Mendoza had just arrived home from the US three days prior to her arrest and is reportedly set to fly back in November, Banes added.

Mendoza is detained at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in San Carlos City. (Eva Visperas/Leonardo Micua)

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