August 12, 2008 | 12:00am
A complaint for frustrated murder was filed yesterday against four people allegedly responsible for lobbing a grenade at the Tudela Police Station early last month.
Cebu Provincial Police Office chief Sr. Supt. Carmelo Valmoria filed the complaint before the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office against Pablito Diocampo, Arnold Montero, Marlito Montero and Rolito Mariamonte.
Arnold confessed to the crime and tagged Diocampo as the mastermind of the grenade attack on the police station last July 5. He said Diocampo paid him P5,000 to do the deed because he wanted to teach the policemen a lesson.
“Aron motagam ang polis,” Arnold quoted Diocampo as saying.
Arnold said that his younger brother, Marlito, received the grenade and the P1,500 down payment from Diocampo inside the municipal hall. The rest of the amount was promised after the attack.
He said after Marlito threw the grenade at the police station around 10 p.m. they immediately went to Mariamonte who was waiting on a motorcycle and they drove to their ancestral house in barangay Puertobello.
Diocampo is allegedly a political supporter of Demetrio Granada, who recently won in an election protest against Mayor Rogelio Bacquerfo.
The grenade throwing occurred at the height of the political squabble in the town, where Granada forcibly took over the municipal hall from Bacquerfo.
Arnold was earlier arrested by the members of the Special Reaction Unit in Tudela for a murder case in Ormoc City. While in police custody, he confessed to his participation in the grenade throwing at the police station. — Fred P. Languido/BRP
