Senior Supt. Allan Guisihan, Negros Occidental  provincial police director, last night said the  suspension of the administrative and operational control of Mayor Melecio Yap over the Escalante police station has not been implemented yet.

Guisihan said he is waiting for the implementing guidelines from Chief Supt. Cipriano Querol, Region 6 police director, so the order can be implemented.

The National Police Commission headed by Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, in a resolution dated July 15  suspended the administrative and operational control of  Yap over the Escalante police station, citing  numerous extra-judicial killings in the city, and his alleged close association with the New People’s Army.

The P200,000 cash reward offered for the arrest of the gunman responsible in the massacre of the relatives of a Negrense broadcaster Ferdinand "Bambi" Yngson has yielded a positive result.

An alleged accomplice of gunman Romeo Corbo was arrested at about 5:30 p.m. yesterday by policemen in Brgy. 1A, Manapla, Negros Occidental.

SPO3 Noel Olaera, chief investigator of the Sagay Police Station, identified the arrested suspect last night as Robert Corbo, alias Boboy, brother of Romeo, who is still at large.

The National Bureau of Investigation filed murder charges yesterday before the Bacolod City Prosecutor’s Office against a jail guard and four inmates of the Negros Occidental Provincial Jail in relation to the killing of a prisoner last month.

The charges were filed by NBI-Bacolod agent-in-charge Jose Ermie Monsato against Juan Palma, Noel Abrahan, Rolando Ramos, “alais Lagoy” of Murcia,  Mario Aburido of Calatrava and Jail Officer 1 Nelson Mabus.

NBI accused Mabus of commissioning Ramos, Aburido, Palma and Abrahan to kill their fellow inmate, Irish Enrile, 28, of Pulpandan town at about 7 p.m. on July 24 at the now defunct NOPJ compound in exchange for P20,000.