Village chief gets P200,000 bounty in Pempengco slay case

MANILA, Philippines—The P200,000 bounty for Angel Capili Jr.’s arrest was given to the village chief who urged the suspect’s wife to persuade him to surrender.

Laguna Governor Jeorge “E.R.” Ejercito Estregan Jr. handed the check worth P200,000 to Barangay Captain Rolando Pagkaliwangan of Bgy. Santiago in Gen. Trias, Cavite.

Pagkaliwangan said that after negotiations through the suspect’s wife, he met Capili at a fastfood restaurant in Baclaran at around 12:00 p.m. Thursday and turned him over to Gen. Trias Mayor Luis “Jon-Jon” Ferrer IV.

“He did not want to surrender to police and asked to be turned over to the mayor,” said the village captain in an interview.

Capili was communicating to his wife through text messages before they met in Baclaran, said Pagkaliwangan.

Ricky Pempengco, the estranged father of international singing sensation Charice Pempengco, was buying cigarettes at a store near his home in San Pedro, Laguna last Monday when he was stabbed by the construction worker with a screwdriver.

Capili told the authorities that he just acted in self defense, saying that Pempengco punched him, prompting him to draw a screwdriver he used in his work and stab the singer’s father.