POLICE ROUNDUP

Globe security guard jailed for firing gun

PILAR, Abra – A security guard of Globe Telecom was arrested here for indiscriminately firing his gun while under the influence of liquor in Barangay Villavieja night of Dec. 26.

The suspect identified as Jerry Masaoay Divina, 40, was arrested in Villavieja after a concerned citizen reported that he was firing a gun.

Confiscated from his possession was a homemade Cal. 22 with two empty magazines while recovered from the crime scene were five fired cartridges of caliber .22. 

Two boys die of electrocution

LAOAG CITY – Two boys died of electrocution recently here in front of the Laoag City Hall. 

CJ Iba and RanierAclan, both 10 years old and Grade 5 students of the Santa Maria Elementary School, were playing hide-and-seek near a Christmas display when they accidentally touched a live wire.  

The victims were pronounced dead on arrival at the Laoag City General Hospital.

Laoag City Mayor Chevylle Fariñas ordered an investigation into the incident. She said the city government would provide financial assistance to the family of the victims. – Ariel Paolo Tejada

Suspect hits young man with stone

BOKOD, Benguet – Police reported a case of physical injuries which recently transpired here in Poblacion. The victim was identified as Nelson Pido Leano, 21 while the suspect was named as as Nelson Balliag of Barangay Ambagueg here. 

Investigation revealed the suspect hit the victim’s forehead with a piece of stone then ran away. The victim was accompanied by his companion at the Municipal Health Office in Poblacion where he was treated and sent home later.

 Man arrested for transporting illegal logs

TUBLAY, Benguet – Town police here conducting mobile patrol along the Halsema Highway recently intercepted at km 18 a private Hyundai Grace Van bearing license plate number XLC 169 driven by Monico Dawines Antonin, Jr. 36,  resident of Camp 6, Kenon Road, Tuba, Benguet.

The van was loaded with illegally sawn pine lumbers with a total volume of 835 board feet. The driver together with the van and its load were arrested and a case was prepared against him in court.

This, as police of nearby La Trinidad town discovered eight pieces of pine lumber along Barangay Central Balili road. The lumbers were brought to the La Trinidad police station and later turned over to the DENR. 

Argument in drinking bout leads to arrests    

BANGUED, Abra – Police arrested a certain Darwin Battallones Galera, 31 here night of Dec. 26 in Barangay Calaba South, Bangued after an argument with persons inside the house of victim Danilo Blanza Blanes, 58, of Calaba.

Police said Blanes and companions were drinking liquor inside his residence when the suspect arrived and had a heated argument that led to a commotion.

The suspect avoided the victim and his companions and went home but they followed him and tried to hit him with a metal pipe but the suspect hacked the victim on his right cheek but then he was also beaten.

The victim was wounded on his right cheek and was rushed to Abra Provincial Hospital while the suspect was arrested by responding personnel of Bangued police. The kitchen knife used was later recovered.

All arrested suspects were jailed while charges were prepared against them.

Chief Supt. Ulysses J. Abellera, Cordillera police director warned criminals and troublemakers they would be arrested if they persist in their illegal activities.

 Bar drinker arrested for concealing knife 

BAGUIO CITY – A man was arrested here recently at Hiland Bar along  Rajah Soliman St. for concealing a deadly weapon. PO2 Edwin Reyes and PO2 Gary M. Tabangcura, both PNP members assigned with COMPAC 3, Station 7, the arrested suspect identified as Brandon Dumanglig Ugwan, 43, laborer, native of Mayoyao Ifugao, and residing at Barangay Bengao, Bakakeng here.  

 Investigation disclosed that the complainants received information that the suspect who was inside the said establishment was armed with a gun. Bodily search was conducted that resulted in confiscation of a double-bladed knife from the suspect’s possession prompting the police officers to arrest him.

Security guard nabbed for theft

LAMUT, Ifugao – Police recently arrested a certain Actor C. Ajhoy27, security guard for theft. Reymundo L. Aumentado, Presiding Judge of RTC, Branch 20, Cauayan City, Isabela, who issued arrest warrant recommended bail P40,000 bail for Ajhoy’s  temporary liberty.

Benguet, Baguio cops arrest carnap suspect in Pangasinan

BAGUIO CITY – A suspect in carnapping of a Hyundai Grace Van in Purok 27, San Carlos Heights, Irisan here Dec. 2 weas recently arrested along McArthur Highway, Villassis Pangasinan, by Benguet and Baguio cops.

The suspect was identified as Salvador Morejes Orogo Jr., 30, unemployed, of Poblacion, Sablan, Benguet. Rufus G. Malecdan Jr., Presiding Judge of RTC Branch 9, La Trinidad, Benguet issued warrant for his arrest and recommended bail of P20,000..

Lagawe cops distribute goodies to pupils

 LAGAWE, Ifugao -- Police here led by Insp. Juliet Nalidong recently distributed sports equipment,  school supplies, and other goods donated by kind-hearted residents of the municipality to 134 pupils of  Dulao Elementary School here.

Nalidong said the activity under the “PisoNamin, NgitiNyo” aims to win the minds and hearts of children especially in far areas.

 SPO4 QuinioTayaban and SPO3 Mildred Atluna also lectured on anti- bullying and discipline to pupils, as they encouraged them   to give their best in their studies for a better future.

 Meanwhile, a total of 67 members of the Barangay Peace Action Team attended training on the operation of handheld radios, basic self-defense in arnis and martial arts and the “Lambat- Sibat” program of the PNP.

 The LMPS encouraged the BPAT members to be active and responsible peace keepers in the community. -- Marcelo B. Lihgawon

‘Akyatbahay’ man slain in shootout

CAMP JULIAN OLIVAS, Pampanga — An alleged member of the notorious “Akyat Bahay Gang” of robbers operating in Nueva Ecija was recently killed by police in a shootout in Barangay San Nicolas, Gapan City, Nueva Ecija.  Police tried to accost two men riding in tandem on a motorcycle in Barangay San Nicolas at 3:15 a.m., but one of them shot at police. When police returned fire, they shot and killed the back-rider, Louie Garcia, of Purok Riles, Barangay San Vicente also in Gapan City. The other suspect got away. Garcia, it turned out, is wanted for a series of robbery cases in the province. -- Franco G. Regala

Tarlac police gets 17 new vehicles

CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga – Seventeen police vehicles were turned over to the Tarlac provincial police office at Camp Macabulos on Wednesday.

Interior Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento and Philippine National Police logistics head Director JuanitoVaño Jr. delivered the vehicles, said Chief Supt. Rudy Lacadin, Police Regional Office 3 director.

“The distribution of patrol jeeps speaks well of the goal of the DILG (Department of the Interior and Local Government) and PNP to increase its capability in running after criminals ...and assisting our people in disaster response operations,” PNP spokesman Chief Supt. Wilben Mayor said.

The mayors or representatives of the towns of Anao, Bamban, Camiling, Capas, Concepcion, Gerona, La Paz, Mayantoc, Moncada, Paniqui, Pura, Ramos, San Clemente, San Jose, San Manuel, Santa Ignacia and Victoria received the vehicles. – RicSapnu