{"id":154257,"date":"2018-02-26T02:04:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=154257"},"modified":"2018-02-26T02:04:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:04:28","slug":"npa-member-arrested-over-death-of-pnps-arthur-masungsong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/26\/npa-member-arrested-over-death-of-pnps-arthur-masungsong\/","title":{"rendered":"NPA member arrested over death of PNP\u2019s Arthur Masungsong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: PNP Chief Police Director General Ronald Dela Rosa visited Police Chief Inspector Ronald Lumactod who was wounded during an armed encounter with kidnappers while conducting a rescue operation of a kidnap victim on December 23, 2017 in Bulacan. (Photo<\/a>: Philippine National Police\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the suspects in the death of the Philippine National Police\u2014Anti-Kidnapping Group (PNP-AKG) Luzon field unit chief Superintendent Arthur Masungsong, who was killed in a shootout, has been arrested by the authorities on Saturday.<\/p>\n

PNP chief Director General Ronald \u201cBato\u201d dela Rosa presented the alleged suspect, Donato Jacob, on Monday, February 26. Jacob reportedly ran off during a clash with the ranking official\u2019s team. The PNP also found out that he is a member of the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines’ (CPP), New People\u2019s Army (NPA).<\/p>\n

On December 23, the police anti-kidnapping official died while Chief Insp. Reynaldo Lumactod was injured during the anti-kidnapping operation in Angat, Bulacan.<\/p>\n

According to a police report, Masungsong rescued 27-year-old Raziel Esguerra who was kidnapped on Friday, December 22, in the afternoon. Her kidnappers were demanding a P15-million ransom money from her family.<\/p>\n

Esguerra\u2019s brother immediately reported the threat to the Camp Crame office of the PNP-AKG that called for the rescue team headed by Masungsong.<\/p>\n

While on their way to save victims of kidnapping, the suspects \u201cchanced upon\u201d the vehicles of the AKG that prompted an exchange of fire between the two groups.<\/p>\n

“The suspects noticed the AKG vehicle and suddenly fired upon them,”\u00a0the police report stated.<\/p>\n

The encounter resulted in the deaths of the four companions of Jacob. The PNP-AKG, on the other hand, successfully rescued the victims.<\/p>\n

Dela Rosa said that this was the first time he heard members of the communist group were involved in a kidnap-for-ransom-case. He added that it was also painful for him to know that a police officer was killed in an infrequent kind of clash with the NPA rebels.<\/p>\n

“Meron silang<\/em> kidnapping, pero<\/em> never may<\/em> ransom. This is an erosion of the belief of their post. Akala ko meron kang ipinaglalaban na<\/em> cause. Bakit ito ang ginagawa ‘nyo? <\/em>(They have kidnapping, however, there was no ransom involved. This is an erosion of the belief of their post. I thought you were fighting for a cause. Why did you do this?)” <\/em>the PNP chief said.<\/p>\n

Masungsong has led numerous successful anti-kidnapping operations when he was the head of the PNP-AKG group.<\/p>\n

The top cop paid his last respects at the St. Ignacius Funeral Parlor where Masungsong\u2019s body was brought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the suspects in the death of the Philippine National Police\u2014Anti-Kidnapping Group (PNP-AKG) Luzon field unit chief Superintendent Arthur …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":154299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[47240,47239],"class_list":["post-154257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-arthur-masungsong","tag-npa-member","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}