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White lady’ tale in car mishap doubted
By Jennelyn Mondejar

ALCALA, Pangasinan – Local folk here said stories of a “white lady” which frequents a road here were figments of the imagination of the gullible.

This, after six people were hospitalized when the Nissan Frontier Navara they were riding in turned upside down after its driver allegedly saw the “white lady” crossing the street in Barangay Kisikis here before dawn last week.

Police quoted Jimmy Lanusa, 39, as saying that he was driving the brand new pick-up truck with five passengers when the “white lady” suddenly crossed the road, prompting him to avoid her.

The truck smashed into a parked mechanized farm tractor, locally known as kuliglig, and then into a mango tree, sending it turning turtle.

The victims were rushed to the Polymedic and Trauma Hospital in Villasis town.

Police merely shrugged off Lanusa’s claim on the “white lady,” saying it was just a tale good for All Souls’ Day.

Local folk said the driver might have fallen asleep and merely used the “white lady” tale to cover up his fault.

Mentor stabbed by hubby survives

BOLINAO, Pangasinan – A public school teacher was stabbed by her own husband who is a barangay councilor around 11:30 p.m. Oct. 26 in Barangay Pilar this town but survived the attack.

A report reaching the police provincial office in Lingayen town said the victim identified as Rosalie Carranza, 42, was allegedly stabbed by her husband, Rommel Carranza, 42, incumbent barangay councilor of said barangay.

The couple had a heated argument prompting the husband, then under the influence of liquor, to get irked and stabbed his wife with a pointed object.

The victim sustained injuries at the back of her body and was rushed to a hospital by responding police officers.

The suspect voluntarily surrendered to the police. – By Jennelyn Mondejar

2 suspected CPP members nabbed in Pangasinan town

By Jennelyn Mondejar

LABRADOR, Pangasinan – Two alleged members of the Communist Party of the Philippines were nabbed by police and military operatives in a checkpoint before dawn last week in barangay Bolo, Labrador, Pangasinan.

Police identified the two suspects as Margie Lupo Navia alias Roja, secretary, front committee 42 of the Komiteng Probinsiya (Komprob) Quezon of the Southern Tagalog Regional Party Committee of the CPP, and her husband, Donato Palo, alias Ka Rojo commanding officer of the Probinsyal Yunit Gerilya of Komprob Quezon.

Police Senior Insp. Gaspar Dacpano, Labrador chief of police, said the two were arrested in a checkpoint in the barangay.

Dacpano said they received orders to conduct the said checkpoint with the military.

He said the two were on board a colored white Toyota Revo.

The two suspects were reportedly arrested by virtue of multiple warrants for murders, and a string of robbery and rebellion cases.

Dacpano said that the duo were on their way to Dasol town in the western part of Pangasinan where they claimed to visit their relatives.

He said the two were brought to the 3rd Intelligence Service Unit of the Philippine Army based in Tarlac.

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Inmate escapes,nabbed again

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – A detainee facing a rape case escaped but was recaptured after 20 minutes evening of Oct. 25 at the police jail here. Police Supt. Harris Fama, Lingayen chief of police, identified the recaptured detainee as Ramon Ancheta, 40, of Casulming St. in Barangay Maniboc here.

Fama said Ancheta is facing rape charges with no bail recommended docketed at the Regional Trial Court Branch 69 here.

Investigation showed that prior to the foiled escape of Ancheta, duty jailguard PO3 Arturo Cruz opened the jail gate to deliver food to another detainee given by his mother.

At that juncture, Ancheta forcibly pushed the jail gate and ran outside the police station.
Fama said duty police officers led by Chief Insp. Medardo Soriano, deputy chief of police immediately conducted a manhunt operation against Ancheta.

Ancheta was collared by the pursuing policemen about 20 minutes after his escape. – Jennelyn Mondejar

4 foreigners stranded in yacht rescued off Bolinao

BOLINAO, Pangasinan – Coast Guard personnel rescued four foreigners from Hong Kong whose Subic-bound yacht encountered engine trouble 77 nautical miles west of Cape Bolinao at dawn Thursday.

Capt. Athelo Ybañez, district commander of Coast Guard-Northern Luzon based in San Fernando, La Union, said his men promptly responded after getting the distress call.

The Coast Guard men were patrolling the waters of La Union on board a vessel of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources when they responded and rescued the foreigners – a Briton, a Korean and two Chinese nationals.

The 55-foot yacht was later towed by a 30-meter long vessel to La Union. – Jennelyn Mondejar

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Teacher’s neck slashed; survives

SAN NICOLAS, Pangasinan – A kindergarten teacher escaped death after her neck was slashed and her face was smashed with a wooden object by her assassin who tried but failed to rape her along a ricefield in Barangay Poblacion East this town around 5:30 p.m. on Oct 19.

Police Senior Insp. Mike Daskeo, town police chief, told newsmen that Daisy Mejia, 20, a kindergarten school teacher was walking alone in an isolated area when an unidentified suspect suddenly pulled her and tried to rape her but she shouted and fought back.

Her attacker slashed her neck and hit her face several times with a wooden object, then left.

A passerby later helped and brought her to a hospital.

The incident was immediately reported to the police. As of Oct. 20, Daskeo said Mejia who was transferred to a hospital in Dagupan City was already in stable condition and could already talk. Daskeo said he had taken photos of farmers harvesting rice in the area for possible identification of the victim as possible suspect. – Jennelyn Mondejar

Soldier, girlfriend killed in accident

By Jennelyn Mondejar

CALASIAO, Pangasinan – A Philippine Army soldier and his girlfriend riding a motorcycle died in an accident involving another motorcycle on the national highway of this town Oct 13.

Senior Inspector Rolando Quejado, Calasiao deputy police chief, said Corporal Federico Valerio, 38, of Malabago, this town, assigned at the Army’s 7th Infantry Division, and his unidentified girlfriend, were brought to the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in Dagupan City. Valerio was declared dead on arrival, while his girlfriend died in the same hospital several hours later.

Investigation showed the victims, on board a Motorstar X125 motorcycle with plate number 5995A, were trying to overtake a Honda TMX-155 motorcycle driven by Angel Royeca III, also of this town, when the accident happened.

Witness said Royeca accidentally bumped Valerio’s motorcycle which caused it to be thrown several meters away.

16 high school students nabbed for hazing rites
By Jennelyn Mondejar

STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan – Police here arrested 16 minors who were caught in the act of hazing in a house fronting the Daniel Maramba National High School in the Poblacion here Wednesday around 5 p.m.

Supt. Eric Noble, town police chief, said his men barged inside the house after an informant told them there would be a hazing activity involving high school students.

Two of the victims were girls while the rest were boys.

Two wooden paddles, about three inches long, were also confiscated from the group who belonged to the Alpha Kappa Rho fraternity.

Three of the fraternity leaders who were present during the hazing were also minors.

“This is the first time that the local police arrested minors involved in hazing,” Noble said.

The students wearing their school uniforms lined up while being whipped with a paddle.

Noble said he has been going around in Banaoang National High School in Barangay Banaoang because of reports that a group has been recruiting its members there.

Sources said the group had recruited about 30 students there.

The girl recruits were tattooed with a period while boys bore question mark on their right hand.

The police are tracking down the fraternity top leaders as they could also be liable for violating the Anti-Hazing Law even if they were not physically present during the actual hazing, Noble said.

The parents of the arrested students were called by the police and were lectured on how to deal with their children.

Noble said he, the school guidance counselor and the Community Help Educators of Pangasinan under Baby Montemayor will provide counseling to the students.

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Cop dies in Alaminos highway accident

ALAMINOS CITY, Pangasinan — A policeman assigned at the crime laboratory of the Police Region 3 Office died Wednesday night in a vehicular accident on the national Highway here at Barangay Lucap.

Police identified the victim as PO3 Melchor Villar y Domingo, 41, married, resident of Lucap, Alaminos, and native of Camiling, Tarlac.

The victim was a back rider in a motorcycle. He was with two companions identified as Modesto Acupido and Maximo Redito, both of Lucap, Alaminos.

Initial investigation showed before the accident, the policeman and his two companions had a drinking spree. They went home at about 10:30 p.m., riding a motorcycle.

Police said the victim might have fallen asleep and dropped on the road while the motorcycle was speeding northwards. The investigators said Villar might have fallen head first, noting that he suffered head injuries. – Jennelyn Mondejar

Calasiao shrine, town hall razed

By Jennelyn Mondejar

CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Local officials here placed the town under a state of calamity after their two-story municipal hall and the famous pilgrimage shrine of the miraculous Señor Divino Tesoro were totally razed by a three-hour fire dawn last week with damages of the building placed at P75 million and another P25 million for the equipment and other office facilities.

Mayor Roy Macanlalay said in a media conference after the Sangguniang Bayan led by Vice Mayor Ferdinand Galang passed a resolution declaring a state of calamity in the area that they have also called for a joint probe of the local fire station about the delay in putting off the fire although it was located only a few meters at the back of the town hall and the police whether there was arson.

He said they have also passed separate resolutions requesting urgent financial assistance from President Arroyo, Vice President Noli de Castro, the senators, third district Rep. Ma. Rachel Arenas and Gov. Amado Espino Jr. for the immediate reconstruction of the building.

“Wala ng natira talaga (Nothing was really left,)“ he said, adding that no record was saved. The pre-war building was made of bricks and mostly wood on its outer surface and had undergone several renovations, the latest of which was only in March.

The cause of the fire is yet to be determined by fire probers.

“Some say it started in the main building, others say at the extension,” he said. He added that nothing has been substantiated so far.

He said they will temporarily hold office at the training center, senior citizens building and their unfinished astrodome. The deputy fire marshal, Senior Fire Officer 3 Jose Cariño, was taken to the Villaflor Doctors’ Hospital in Dagupan City due to suffocation. No one else was reported hurt.

While the mayor admitted that there were no anti-fire equipment installed at the town hall, the electrical wiring in the renovated portions had been replaced with new ones.

He said that once they rebuild the town hall, they will probably retain the facade which was still intact to remind them about the previous planners who originally built the town hall.

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Thousands of P’sinan folks suffering from gastro ills
By Jennelyn Mondejar

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – The provincial government has intensified quick response activities to address water-borne diseases after 6,350 acute gastroenteritis cases have been reported in Pangasinan, with 57 found positive of cholera with one death.

In a press briefing Wednesday, Rafael Baraan, provincial administrator said most of these cases belong to households using shallow tube wells as their source of drinking water and they are in places where households are not using sanitary toilets.

The past eight months, among the AGE cases in the province, Dagupan City recorded the highest number of afflicted persons with 621, followed by San Carlos City with 565, Alaminos City with 418, Bolinao with 348, Bayambang with 333 and Mangatarem with 330.

Of the 6,350 cases, 57 were found to be cholera cases. Sixteen are from Bayambang with one death mostly in Barangay Tococ, 15 in barangay Baybay, Aguilar town and 11 in different places in Bolinao.

These are flood-prone areas and the team is trying to find factors that serve as conducive to the breeding of cholera bacteria, Baraan said.

There were also one each of cholera cases in San Carlos City, Mangatarem, Sta. Barbara, Calasiao, Sual, San Fabian, Anda and Agno. Two cases each were from Alaminos City and Bani and another three in Dagupan City.

“We’re assuring everything is under control and that our regional and provincial health offices’ joint quick response team is on top of the situation,” Baraan said.

He said based on reports by the team, most of the cases happened in August afflicting mostly children.

Baraan allayed fears of Pangasinen­ses that there could be a repeat of the 2004 incident where there were more than 10,000 confirmed cholera cases that caused provincewide alarm.

Dr. Jackson Soriano, officer-in-charge and provincial health officer, said in the briefing that during rainy season, there is a high incidence of AGE that results in diarrhea and dehydration, if not immediately acted upon.

Because of the intensified surveillance effort, Soriano said they were able to find out cholera cases during random sampling for rectal swab among those afflicted where the organism found in the laboratory analysis was vibrio cholerae.

Cholera causes more complications, higher morbidity and greater mortality, Soriano said, but added, this year’s cases should not cause undue alarm as everything is done to arrest the problem.


Dagupan archbishop facing 80 libel cases
By Jennelyn Mondejar

DAGUPAN CITY – Lingayen – Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz is now facing eighty libel cases with a bail bond of P800,000.

“Strange but true,” said Cruz, former president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, in his online blog Wednesday.

Cruz, chairman of Krusada ng Bayan Laban sa Sugal (People’s Crusade Against Gambling) said the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. which “orchestrated” the filing of the cases might even get a page in the Guinness’ Book of World Records – with the probable heading: “A government owned public gambling corporation that filed the biggest number of libel cases against one person on one and the same issue.”

He said the 80 counts of libel appears based on number of assumed complainants multiplied by the number of newspapers that carried the story. “Let the 80 counts of libel be also multiplied by combined numbers of all of the issues of the said newspapers – plus the number of all their readers, also combined. This would require a lot of counting that would also enormously increase the grand total of the libel cases. The total amount the bail bond would then be also enormous and spectacular.”

Cruz’s libel case stemmed from his column used by several newspapers where he accused the Pagcor of using its women employees as “guest relations officer” during a birthday celebration of First Gentlemen Miguel Arroyo in 2004.

He said this was unceremoniously dismissed by a competent judicial authority. But four years later, he said the Department of Justice had the case again filed – possibly for reason of national interest only known to its celebrated secretary.

The Manila Regional Trial Court issued a warrant of arrest on May 12. Cruz posted the usual P10,000 bail bond for his temporary liberty.

In July, the arraignment was held. The accused pleaded “not guilty” to the one and the same libel case.

“This September, there are no less than 80 libel cases filed against the same accused on exactly the same issue,” Cruz said. “And this time around, the bail will amount to a whopping P800,000.”

He said the “surge of libel cases filed and re-filed against some people who are telling the truth about the present government is apparently used to threaten and silence them, to keep certain to quiet from pointing out the realities in the country.”


Mayor disputes smuggling charge

LABRADOR, Pangasinan -- Labrador Mayor Ernesto Acain disputed Wednesday an accusation that he is involved in the smuggling of cars.

Earlier, the mayor’s warehouse was raided by operatives of Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group PASG and the National Bureau of Investigation.

Interviewed over the telephone, Mayor Acain said the cars found by the raiders in his bodega were legally acquired by him.

He said the vehicles were second-hand. "I did not know why they seized them," he said. Jennelyn Mondejar

Village chief charged for mayor’s slay; suspects include politician, cop

By Jennelyn Mondejar

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – A task force created by the police provincial office to probe and solve the gunslaying of Agno Mayor Arthur Cabantac, filed murder charges last week at the Prosecutor’s Office in Burgos town against a barangay captain, a chief tanod and the alleged gunman plus five John Does.

Senior Supt. Isagani Nerez, police provincial director, told newsmen after careful study, Task Force Cabantac filed murder charges against the suspects based on testimonies of four witnesses who identified the suspects.

Charges were filed against Jorge Saulo, alleged gunman, Barangay Captain Rodrigo Miranda, chief tanod Gener Sibinario, both of Barangay Sto. Tomas, Aliaga, Nueva Ecija and five John Does.

Cabantac was gunned down around 9:20 p.m. of Aug. 2 while playing mahjong with friends at a neighbor’s house at the corner of Zamora and Gomez Streets, Poblacion East, Agno.

The suspects used an M16 Armalite rifle. Four empty shells and one slug from the rifle were recovered at the crime scene by police.

After several days, a resident of Barangay Sto. Tomas, Aliaga, Nueva Ecija voluntarily appeared before the Office of Pangasinan Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and revealed the alleged perpetrators and provided description of the three suspects of the six members of the group.

The suspects were allegedly paid P2 million to kill Cabantac.

Three other witnesses from Agno positively identified the perpetrators.

Nerez said the five John Does include politicians, businessmen and a policeman but the police are still gathering subsequent evidence to strengthen the case against them. “We consider this case partially solved.”

Nerez said they will eventually unmask the masterminds. “As of now, we are going there.”

He said the strongest motives they are looking into the mayor’s slay are political and business.

Nerez said they talked to family members of the mayor before they filed the case. He added the case was moving.

PASG, NBI agents raid P’sinan mayor’s bodega

By Jennelyn Mondejar

LABRADOR, Pangasinan – Elements of the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group and National Bureau of Investigation in Dagupan City swooped down the other day on a warehouse of the mayor of Labrador town and placed under verification several imported cars, motorcycles, big bikes and scooters which, based on information, were allegedly smuggled into the country.

Lawyer Dave Alunan, executive officer of NBI-Dagupan and operations officer for Region 1 of PASG, told the media their mission order to inspect the warehouse was signed by PASG chief Undersecretary Antonio Villar Jr.

The team found used vehicles such as a Mitsubishi Eclipse model 1998 (worth about P300,000), a Isuzu Bighorn Wagon model 1994 (P300,000), a Mercedes Benz model 207 (P400,000), five assorted big bikes and dirt motorcycles (P10,000 each), eight scooters (P5,000 each), and 15 mountain bikes (P2,000 each).

“The GIA Trading under the name of Guillermo Acain was the subject of the mission order, but Mayor Ernesto Acain admitted that he is the real owner of the warehouse,” Alunan said.

Alunan said the mayor owns some of the items found in the bodega while the others are for sale.

The mayor was the one who gave the estimated worth of the items.

The Acain brothers showed documents of ownership of the items which they allegedly purchased from other people.

The items were brought to the NBI office in Dagupan City for further verification with the government agencies concerned, Alunan said.

While the vehicles purportedly owned by the mayor have documents of ownership, no papers showing payment of Customs duties were shown to the PASG-NBI team, Alunan said.

The mayor failed to show documents of ownership for the bikes and motorcycles, but he assured the team that he would produce the necessary papers in a few days, Alunan said.

Alunan said they gave the mayor three days to do so.

The Acain brothers voluntarily surrendered the items to PASG-NBI team.

In the meantime, Alunan said the Acain brothers will be placed under investigation and if evidence warrants, will be prosecuted.

Mayor Acain, in an interview with Bombo Radyo Dagupan, said he has nothing to hide and is ready to present the necessary documents.

“It’s okay with me. I’m not hiding anything,” he said.

4 pastors among 10 Koreans who died in P’sinan road accident

BOLINAO, Pangasinan – Relatives of the 10 Koreans who died in a road mishap along the national highway in Barangay Sampaloc this town past noon Wednesday arrived here and identified the bodies.

Four of them were pastors of a Born Again Christian group while two were honeymooners.

A list provided by retired Philippine Air Force Col. Cesar Manzano, owner of the Gethsemane Memorial Park Inc./Funeral Parlor in Barangay Palamis, Alaminos City where the victims were brought, identified the casualties as: Lee In Chul, businessman; Park Sung Don, male, pastor; Jeong Jeong Hee, housewife; Park Pu Ah, housewife; Park Soo Jin, male, pastor; Park Tae Sung, male, pastor; Han Youn Oh, housewife; Lee Su-Keon, male, mechanical engineer; Kwac Byung Bae, male, pastor; and Choi Mi Kyung, five years old, female, student.

Their relatives arrived at the funeral parlor to get their bodies.

Pangasinan police director Senior Supt. Isagani Nerez meanwhile said nine fatalities were taken
by the Korean association and their families to Manila and would be flown to Korea for burial.
One was brought to Baguio City. The victims’ ages range from 20 to 40.

The accident happened when the Hyundai van they rode in from Baguio en route to Garden Paradise Resort in this town rammed into the concrete wall of a warehouse in the middle of heavy rainfall.

The victims wore swimming attire when the accident happened as they reportedly dropped by Alaminos City for a swim at the Hundred Islands before proceeding to their billeting area here.

“It looked like they were asleep when the tragic incident happened because witnesses said they did not hear shouts,” Manzano said.

Senior Insp. Rizaldy Dalope, Bolinao police chief, told newsmen they returned to the accident site noon time Thursday with the victims’ relatives and recovered their other belongings.
He said the blue green van, (RDN 423), where the victims rode in was old and a total wreck.

It was said to have encountered mechanical defects that caused the accident while it was speeding on the road.

Dalope said they were already finalizing their reports that would be needed for the bodies to be brought home to Korea.

He said the Koreans arrived in the Philippines a few days ago only.

Pol faces probe for ‘coddling kidnapper’

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Police are set to investigate a politician for allegedly coddling an arrested kidnap-for-ransom syndicate member in Urbiztondo town.

Gov. Amado Espino Jr. ordered the probe saying there should be no sacred cows in the drive against criminality.

Senior Supt. Isagani Nerez, provincial police director, bared the governor’s order in a press conference Wednesday where he presented the arrested suspect, Ronald Quitaleg Pidlaoan, 36, alias Buddha.

Pidlaoan, who is believed to have been used as gun-for-hire by certain influential people, was arrested by a police team Aug. 16 in Barangay Gueteb, Urbiztondo town.

Nerez said they will invite “an elected official” to shed light on allegations that he coddled Pidlaoan.

“I talked to the governor this morning and he said there should be no scared cows,” he said, giving a hint that the politician hails from the second congressional district.

“This should also serve as a strong warning to other coddlers of criminals,” he said.

He said they are 100 percent sure that Pidlaoan, who had an arrest warrant for kidnapping for ransom from the municipal trial court in Rosales town, belonged to the Quitaleg KFR gang that seized a female trader in Rosales and a rich Chinese businessman in Dagupan City sometime in 2002.

Espina said Pidlaoan is facing trial in Criminal Case No. 8571 for the kidnapping of Chinese-Filipino trader Gina So in 2002.

So, owner of Golden Lumber and Hardware in Rosales, Pangasinan was abducted on Sept. 14, 2002 by the Quitalig group who demanded P30-million for the safe release of the victim.

According to Espina, the victim was held captive by her kidnappers for 44 days until she was freed on Oct. 28 somewhere in Victoria, Tarlac.

No bail is recommended for Pidlaoan’s case.

Nerez said in a separate interview that among the KFR group’s victims in Pangasinan was a female trader in Rosales and a Chinese hotel owner in Dagupan City. They also had one victim in Batangas whom they released in Victoria, Tarlac after a pay off.

The group was very active in their KFR operations in 2002, Nerez said.

He said the group’s leader had been earlier killed by lawmen in an encounter in Tarlac.

He added that based on police monitoring, remnants of this group have allegedly shifted to gun-for-hire operations.

Neres said they are double-checking whether members of this same group are behind the recent killings in Pangasinan.

Nerez used to work at the Police Anti-Crime and Emergency Response that handled the two kidnapping cases.

He said Pidlaoan’s arrest was in response to Espino’s order during his State of the Province Address for the police to go after guns-for-hire and those coddling or using them.

Pidlaoan’s companion, a certain Danny Aquino, is still being hunted. Leaders of the Quitaleg KFR gang, Joselito and Ramil Quitaleg, have been neutralized in Tarlac, Nerez said. Pidlaoan denied that the Quitalegs are his relatives.

Other members of the gang are believed to have shifted to gun-for-hire not only in Pangasinan but also in neighboring provinces, Nerez said, adding they could go back to their old criminal ways.

Police said Pidlaoan and his cohorts had gone into hiding but returned to their criminal activities before the 2007 elections.

Nerez said the Quitaleg KFR gang possibly has links with the Bocala KFR syndicate because of their vast operations in Northern, Central and Southern Luzon.
He added their ransom demands amounting to up to P50 million showed they are big-time KFR syndicates.

Nerez asaid there would be more peace in the province following the arrest of Pidlaoan and the neutralization a few months ago of five other suspected guns-for-hire in the cities of Dagupan and Urdaneta and the towns of Manaoag, Villasis and Malasiqui.

Senior Insp. Mario Estrada, Urbiztondo town earlier bared Pidlaoan nabbed by elements of the Special Operation Group under Supt. Joseph Lopez, Police Anti-Crime and Emergency Response, under Chief Insp. Marceliano Desamito Jr., Provincial Intelligence Branch under Supt. Amando Lagiwid in coordination with Mangatarem and Urbiztondo Police Stations under the over-all supervision of Nerez, police provincial director, and Criminal Investigation and Detection Group under Supt. Jonel Estomo.

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Pangasinan town placed under state of calamity
By Jennlyn Mondejar

SAN NICOLAS, Pangasinan – Town officials here declared a state of calamity Wednesday following massive flooding in at least seven barangays caused by a breach in a dike.

Mayor Leoncio Saldivar III said the Calaocan dike along the Ambayaoan Riv