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Charges filed vs suspect in Tanapag killing
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Posted on May 13 2005
The Attorney General’s Office has filed murder charges against the suspect in the killing of a poker attendant in Tanapag three years ago.
Francisco Aguon Pua, 42, was charged with first-degree murder and robbery.
Chief prosecutor Jeffrey Moots alleged that on May 22, 2002, Pua “did unlawfully kill Mostofa Faruk Parves with malice aforethought during the perpetration of robbery.”
Moots also stated that the defendant robbed 33-year-old Parves, a Bangladeshi national employed as attendant at Candi’s Poker in Tanapag.
Records show that Parves was beaten to death during the early hours of May 22, 2002. His body was discovered early that morning by the establishment’s manager.
Pua, however, was not arrested until Tuesday morning.
Police said that the Homicide Task Force initially found it difficult to solve the crime due to some witnesses fearing for their safety or informants leaving the island.
David said that investigators knew Pua was among several others at the crime scene at the time of the incident, after reviewing footage taken from the establishment’s surveillance camera.
Evidence from the crime scene, as well as from the suspect’s residence, was sent to the FBI laboratory in Quanaco, Virginia for testing and analysis.
David said local authorities finally received results of the tests this year.
