Police Intelligence Operatives yesterday raided a farmer training center of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines, in Barangay Napoles, Bago City based on reports about the presence of these rebel personalities with pending arrest warrants for murder.

However, the raid had a negative result as the subjects of the arrest warrants, whose identities are being withheld by the police, were able to elude arrest. Some Negros Occidental police officials said last night that they were not aware of the raid, while others refused to confirm or deny the attempt to serve the arrest warrants.

But a police source said a text message circulating among local media outlets, may have preempted the police operations, and led to the escape of the subjects of their quarry.

Priest-turn-rebel Frank Fernandez, secretary of the Komiting Rehiyonal-Negros, is among the top leaders of the New People's Army who has numerous pending arrest warrants in various courts of Negros Occidental and Oriental. The raiding team of Police Intelligence Operatives reportedly came from Iloilo.*GPB

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