Another suspect in the attempted murder of Councilor Victoriano Alabastro, of Bayawan City, Negros Oriental, was arrested by police intelligence operatives and agents of the National Bureau of Investigation Friday.

Police reports showed that Remy Diocares, 41, married, of Barangay Culipapa in Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental, and temporarily residing at Sitio Tab-ang, Brgy. Pagatban, Bayawan, was nabbed in Brgy. Agan-an, in Sibulan town, Negros Oriental, by virtue of a search warrant for qualified theft, issued by the Regional Trial Court Branch 42.

Diocares, who is now detained at the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office lockup cell, was tagged as a suspect in the slay-try on Alabastro, on June 24, 2011.

Earlier reports said that Alabastro was boarding his car at the Negros Oriental State University Bayawan-Sta. Catalina campus, when an unidentified gunman walked up to him and fired several times. The councilor survived the shooting, with only graze wounds in his abdomen.*PNA

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