More Palparan ‘sightings’ reported after announcement of P1M bounty

MANILA, Philippines—Reports of sightings of fugitive retired Major General Jovito Palparan Jr. poured in after the bounty for information that would lead to his capture was doubled to P1 million.

Jovito Palparan Jr.

Speaking to reporters at Camp Crame on Tuesday, Chief Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr., spokesman of the Philippine National Police, said they received even more information on Palparan’s possible whereabouts after the reward money was increased but said that such information are still being verified.

Information would then be passed on to tracker teams fanned out in search for Palparan whose surrender feelers did not pan out. “Apparently, hindi makatotohanan ang surrender feelers (The surrender feelers were not authentic),” the police spokesperson said.

Meanwhile, Cruz assured the public they were confident that the members of their ranks would never coddle Palparan.

To those who have information on the fugitive Cruz made an appeal to “please inform the authorities of his whereabouts.”

From the earlier five-hundred-thousand-peso(P500,000)-bounty for Palparan, it was doubled by the Department of Justice and Department of Interior and Local Government last week in their efforts to catch the retired military man tagged as “The Butcher” for being the alleged mastermind in a string of extra-judicial killings in Central Luzon and other provinces during the administration of the jailed former President now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.