{"id":61738,"date":"2015-09-21T18:02:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T10:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61738"},"modified":"2015-09-22T15:35:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T07:35:13","slug":"mario-brothers-wanted-for-murder-arrested-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/21\/mario-brothers-wanted-for-murder-arrested-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mario brothers\u2019 wanted for murder arrested in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thai police presents the arrest of former politicians Joel Reyes (seated, right) and his brother Mario (seated, left). (Photo from the Bureau of Immigration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 Former Palawan governor Mario Joel T. Reyes and his brother, former Coron mayor Mario T. Reyes, alleged masterminds in the 2011 killing of journalist and environmentalist Gerry Ortega, have reportedly been arrested in Phuket, Thailand over the weekend for \u2018overstaying\u2019 in the country.<\/p>\n

According to a police source from the Philippine National Police\u2019s (PNP) Task Force Usig assigned to the capture of the wanted \u2018Mario brothers,\u2019 the Thai police have detained the brothers for eventual deportation and have already coordinated with the PNP.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed the arrest of the Reyes brothers and earlier disclosed that there was probable cause to indict both suspects for murdering Ortega.<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s family, for their part, has already been informed of the arrest. Ortega\u2019s daughter, Mica, said in a radio interview that they could not believe the news at first but eventually felt relief that the trial on the alleged masterminds could continue.<\/p>\n

It can be recalled that President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III in 2012 placed a two-million bounty for the capture of the \u2018Big Five\u2019 which included the Reyes brothers, former Dinagat Island Representative Ruben Ecleo Jr., Army Major General Jovito Palparan and Globe Asiatique developer Delfin Lee.<\/p>\n

Of the five fugitives, only Ecleo remained at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA \u2013 Former Palawan governor Mario Joel T. Reyes and his brother, former Coron mayor Mario T. Reyes, alleged masterminds …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":61741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-61738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61738","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=61738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}