Ilocos Norte police round-up

2 cousins shot dead
DINGRAS, Ilocos Norte -- On the eve of their dead uncle’s scheduled internment day, Warlito Agoto, 35, and cousin Arsenio, 40, attended the wake in Barangay Sulquiano here.

At dawn of July 17, while both were watching a poker game at the yard, a gunman sprung from nowhere and fatally shot the two cousins at close range. Their uncle’s wife Felicidad was hit by stray bullet and treated at GRASM Hospital. – Jun Guiang


Convict repents for killing townmate
BANGUI, Ilocos Norte -- Rommel Lacar expressed remorse for slaying his townmate Velmar Lagat of Barangay Subec, Pagudpud town.

Now, he knows that crime does not pay after he was sentenced to eight to10 years imprisonment by RTC Judge Rosemarie Ramos of Branch 19 here.

Aide suffers heart attack; rams 2 fiscals’ cars
LAOAG CITY —Due to apparent heart attack, Capitol’s provincial development officer aide Albert Blas lost control of his red plate service pick up and bumped the parked cars of city fiscals Voltaire Ramos and Clifford Tumaneng in front of the City Hall here. Nobody was hurt.


Payloader crushes youth to death
SOLSONA, Ilocos Norte --James Dagdag, 17, single, met a horrifying death when a payloader driven by JV Corpuz run over him after he accidentally fell from the bucket of the monster vehicle Thursday morning in Barangay San Juan here.

JV said he did not notice that James fell off and landed on his path. The victim, together with several companions, rode on the payloader on their way to their workplace at a construction site when the accident occurred. -- Jun R. Guiang