Murder of Pampanga couple: Two ex-cops held on gun raps


Geneva Lopez and Yitshak Cohen — photo from Geneva Lopez’s Facebook page Read more: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1958833/pampanga-couple-slay-2-ex-cops-held-on-gun-raps#ixzz8fOGIoGrt Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook

MABALACAT CITY, Pampanga: Two former policemen tagged as “persons of interest” in the abduction and murder of beauty pageant candidate Geneva Lopez and her Israeli boyfriend Yitshak Cohen were arrested on Saturday (July 6) for illegal possession of firearms.

A police report obtained by the Inquirer on Sunday identified one of the arrested as dismissed policeman Michael Angelo Guiang, who earlier executed a sworn statement that he was the middleman Lopez and Cohen met in Capas, Tarlac, on June 21 for the 20.5-hectare agricultural land the couple was allegedly buying.

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