ALL the years of hard work and painstaking intelligence gathering by an exclusive unit of military operatives under Task Force Run Away were finally rewarded yesterday morning with the arrest of the elusive fugitive, retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan.

Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said he ordered a few years back the formation of Task Force Run Away, a unit under the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), which was solely dedicated to the manhunt and capture of Palparan.

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