Pangasinan Today

NEARLY 11 months to date and justice has not yet been served to the family of the Resuellos who lost their beloved and former Mayor Julian V. Resuello of

The erstwhile mayor lost his life while undergoing treatment at the St. Luke’s

The other gunman shot to death, the former mayor’s body guard during the occasion.

Helping to serve justice to the bereaved family, the task force assigned by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) to run after the suspects to the case, was able to put behind bars, one Angelito Mamaril, allegedly the triggerman who aimed and fired his gun to hit the bodyguard of the former mayor.

But the prime suspect whom members of the police task force identified as one Cesar “Cabeza” De Guzman as the one responsible for slaying the former mayor, remains at large and nowhere to be found.

Incidentally, the PPPO has recognized De Guzman as the number one most wanted person in Pangasinan at present.

The police task force, apparently, is facing a blank wall in pursuit of De Guzman and the one who masterminded the case.

When Mayor Jullier Resuello said he and his family members are disappointed over the fact that the prime suspect still lurks “somewhere out there” while no trace has ever been established over the identity and whereabouts of the mastermind, this is loud and clear.

Still bereaved over the untimely death of the chief executive, the Resuello family, with the help of friends, supporters and sympathizers, have raised painstakingly, a reward money from its initial amount of P500,000 to P2 million at present.

The reward is to be given to anyone who could provide information that leads to the arrest of the prime suspect and the mastermind behind the slay case.

But it is also understandable when the police admitted that the difficulty in tracing the whereabouts of the prime suspect and the mastermind is due to the fact that the turnout of the needed information is very low and there is no strong hint about the culprits.

At this point in time, let us pray that the hope to be able to catch the remaining culprits, still shines, to be able to achieve justice for the aggrieved family of the slain mayor.

Let us join hands to give life to the adage which tells that “crime does not pay”.