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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Friday, February 3, 2017
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ILOILO City – The suspect in the 2015 death of a businessman and his live-in partner in Jaro district has been arrested in Sitio Capahu-an, Barangay Himaya, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental.
Ruben Villaleon, 36, will be transported to Iloilo City before the week is over, according to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) that carried out the arrest on Wednesday.
Villaleon was charged with stabbing to death employers Jose Daliva, 53, and Girlie Alabaran, 34, then setting on fire the couple and their JD Calibration machine shop in Barangay Tagbak, Jaro on July 8, 2015.
“Villaleon did not resist arrest. He was surprised when policemen served him an arrest warrant in his house,” said Senior Inspector Jerald Muya, Hinigaran police chief.
CIDG-Iloilo, CIDG-Bacolod and the Hinigaran police teamed up to arrest Villaleon who faces a robbery with homicide charge.
Judge Guilljie Delfin Lim of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 22 in Iloilo City issued the arrest warrant.
Muya said Villaleon did not have a criminal record in Hinigaran.
Villaleon was charged by the Jaro police station nearly a month after the murders. According to then Jaro police commander Chief Inspector Herbert Ballego, they have five witnesses.
Daliva and Albaran were found dead inside their machine calibration shop that fire gutted. Investigation showed, however, that the two were in fact stabbed to death.
The shop was deliberately set on fire to make it appear that the victims died in the blaze, said Ballego.
Albaran was found dead in bed; a knife was still embedded in her chest. Daliva’s body, on the other hand, was found at the back compartment of his car.
The fire appeared to have started from multiple points in the shop, according to City Fire Marshal Jerry Candido, leading them to suspect arson.
Furthermore, the shop’s doors showed no signs that these were forcibly opened, Candido said. This made them suspicious that the culprit or culprits were known to the victims and may have been allowed to come in.
The doors were locked from the inside and the only exit was at the rear of the shop, Candido added. (With a report from Cyrus Garde/PN)
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