‘Rebel’ tagged as Calabarzon’s 2nd ‘most wanted’ nabbed in Rizal 

SAN PEDRO CITY – An alleged communist rebel who was also tagged as the second most wanted criminal in Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon (CALABARZON) was arrested in Baras town in Rizal province, police said Monday.

Regional police spokesperson Supt. Chitadel Gaoiran said Raul Razo, 47, who use the alias “Ka Jade,” was arrested in his home around 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Barangay (village) Pinugay.

Razo was collared after the Regional Mobile Force Battalion implemented the warrant of arrest against him, according to Gaoiran.

Judge Florencio Arellano, of the regional trial court branch 28 in Sta. Cruz, Laguna, issued the arrest warrant for murder on October 2, 2003.

Police said Razo “was affiliated with the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing New People’s Army, with a P500,000 bounty” for his head.

Police did not immediately provide details of the 2003 murder case, but militant youth group Anakbayan in 2012 said Razo was also among the 43 people named in a “trumped-up” case in relation to the abduction and killing of Private First Class Eriberto Eclaveo of the Philippine Army and a certain “Ka Troy” on May 27, 2007.

Last week, an arrest warrant was issued against four activist leaders and former lawmakers Satur Ocampo, Teddy Casiño, Liza Maza and Rafael Mariano over a 2006 murder in Nueva Ecija.   /kga