PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Aug. 4, 2013) – Police arrested and filed criminal charges against a village official accused of murdering a ten-year old boy in Zamboanga del Sur in southern Philippines, officials said Sunday.
Officials said Algien Lucero, 20, chairman of the Sanguniang Kabataan in the town of Aurora, allegedly bludgeoned Richard Lucero and hid his body at a banana plantation in the village of Bag-Ong to cover up the grisly murder.
“Police have filed charges against him for the murder of the boy. He is now detained in Aurora police station,” said Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca, a regional police spokesman.
He said suspect was drunk when he killed the boy and told his friend, Dennis Lopez – who lives in the same house – about the murder and where he hid the body.
Lopez later told the boy’s father about the murder after they came looking for him in his house where neighbors last saw the victim with the village official.
Huesca said the motive of the killing is still unknown. It was not immediately known whether the accused was high on drugs at the time of the murder. (Mindanao Examiner
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