Chief Superintendent Reuben Theodore Sindac. NOY MORCOSO lll/INQUIRER.net FILE PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines–Just a day after the Quezon City police formed an investigating team to hunt down the killers of their colleague, four suspects behind the ambush of Chief Inspector Roderick Medrano have been arrested.
Chief Superintendent Reuben Theodore Sindac, Philippine National Police Public Information Office (PNP PIO) chief, disclosed this in a text message on Thursday.
The four suspects, whose names are being withheld by the police, were arrested by the operatives of the Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) Medrano around 3 a.m. of Wednesday.
Medrano,41, was the head of the operations section of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Station 4 in Novaliches, Quezon City.
He was killed in an ambush on Monday along San Diego Drive in Barangay (village) Kaligayahan, the boundary of Fairview and Novaliches, as he was driving his two sons to school.
Immediately after the killing, Chief Superintendent Richard Albano, QCPD chief, ordered on Tuesday the creation of SITG Medrano to track down the attackers.
Senior Superintendent Procopio Lipana, QCPD deputy district director for operations, was tapped by Albano to head the task group.
Three .45 caliber pistols, an M30 carbine, .38 caliber revolver, a hand grenade and a white Toyota FX without plate number have been confiscated from the alleged perpetrators.
The arrested individuals are now under the custody of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (CIDU) of the QCPD for documentation.
Medrano’s fellow policemen described him as “a humble person with no known enemies.”
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