CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – A former mayor tagged in the killing of the deputy prosecutor of Isabela in Conner, Apayao in 2021 surrendered to the police in Apayao on Wednesday, Nov. 16.
Capt. Marnie Abellanida, information officer of the Police Regional Office-Cordillera, said Leonardo Daodaoen Dangoy, 65, former mayor of Conner, surrendered at Camp Gov. Elias Bulut Sr. and Training Center in Luna after learning that he had an arrest warrant for murder.
Abellanida said the warrant was issued by Judge Neljoe Cortes of Branch 26, Regional Trial Court in Luna with no bail recommended.
Dangoy was listed as the No.1 Most Wanted Person in Apayao in the fourth quarter of this year.
On June 23, 2021, two men allegedly barged and shot to death Atty. Victor Domingo Begtang Jr., 49, inside his house in Barangay Malama.
The suspects fled while Begtang was taken to the Conner District Hospital where he was declared dead.