Police tag crime gangs in Pampanga ‘salvagings’

SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – Police believe that criminal syndicates operating in Angeles City could be behind the “salvaging” (summary execution) of two men whose bodies were dumped in Magalang and Porac towns recently.

Senior Superintendent Keith Singian, Pampanga police director, said the victims could have been killed as a result of conflicts within these syndicates.

One of the bodies, without a head, was dumped in Magalang, and Superintendent Rodney Louie Baloyo IV, the town’s police chief, suspects that the victim belonged to a robbery-holdup gang operating in Angeles City.

The second victim, whose body was found at the anti-lahar megadike in Porac, was reportedly also involved in illegal activities, according to local police chief Superintendent Rolly Mendoza.

The bodies of three other men also surfaced in Arayat town recently. Police suspect that the victims had been abducted and killed in Nueva Ecija and their bodies dumped in Porac to mislead investigators.