By CYRUS M. GARDE
BACOLOD City — The informant on the whereabouts of wanted person Noel Ayalin may claim the P800,000 reward soon.
Senior Supt. Milko Lirazan, director of Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, said the informant can get the reward as soon as he issues a certification.
The provincial government and the Philippine National Police raised a P500,000 bounty, but the amount was increased after the Silay City government offered an additional P300,000.
Provincial Administrator Enrique Pinongan said the capitol’s counterpart is currently being processed at the Provincial Treasurer’s Office.
Police were still withholding the informant’s identity.
Ayalin, former barangay captain of Kapitan Ramon, Silay City, was accused of shooting to death four people and wounding several others on March 6, 2011.
One of the top wanted persons in Western Visayas, he was arrested in Iba, Zambales, on May 15.
On May 26, he pleaded guilty to two attempted homicide charges filed before the Municipal Trail Court in Cities in Silay City.
On June 9, he will be arraigned for three counts of direct assault with murder and four qualified frustrated murder charges filed before the Regional Trial Court Branch 69.
He is currently detained in the Bacolod City District Jail–Special Intensive Care Area./PN
