The arrested New People’s Army leader facing raps for robbery with homicide and physical injuries has been denied bail by the court, Col. Oscar Lactao, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, said yesterday.

Joel Danioso, an alleged commander of the Yunit Militia of the NPA Northern Negros Front Committee, was nabbed by a combined team of policemen and Army soldiers last week in Sitio Minatipik, Brgy. Winaswasan, Calatrava. The arrest warrant was issued by San Carlos City Regional Trial Court Judge Kathrine Go.

Lactao said Danioso has been endorsed to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in San Carlos City, for detention.

Danioso was also linked to the summary execution of an Army detachment commander in front of his daughter and the disarming of government militiamen, two years ago.

The rebels shot and killed detachment commander, SSgt. Efraim Bagonoc, in front of his daughter, disarmed the militiamen, and took 23 high-powered firearms from the detachment, military records showed.

Danioso is the younger brother of Rogelio Danioso, commander of the NPA Northern Negros Front, who was arrested in previous years for robbery-in-band charges, but managed to post bail. *GPB

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