Friday, April 28, 2006
Agents arrest mutiny leader (8:05 p.m.)
MANILA -- Military and police agents on Friday arrested a man who was a leader of a civilian-military fraternity and was tagged as one of the alleged brains of a failed mutiny in 2003, officials said.
Ernesto Macahiya, spokesman of the Philippine Guardians Brotherhood Inc., was arrested near a cockfighting arena in Los Banos, a town 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Manila, said
Chief Superintendent Prospero Noble Jr., the regional police chief.
The government has offered an P8 million (US$15,300; euro12,800) bounty for the capture of seven Guardians officers, including Macahiya.
The fraternity's top leader Gregorio Honasan, a former senator and army colonel who led several coup attempts in the late 1980s, remains at large.
A court in the Manila suburb of Makati has charged Honasan, Macahiya and the five other Guardians officers with launching a coup as part of the 2003 mutiny.
Honasan is also among 49 people charged with rebellion over an alleged failed coup attempt in February.(AP) |
