POLICE ROUNDUP

Abra gun ban violator arrested
BANGUED, Abra -- Police nabbed another gun ban violator here on Oct. 28 around 10 p.m. when elements of the police special action force saw a group of persons having a drinking spree along the roadside that prompted them to search the group.
This resulted to the arrest of one Tito Tollas Adame, 35, married and resident of the place. Confiscated from the suspect was a Cal .45 Norinco pistol with one magazine loaded with nine bullets.

The suspect was brought to the Abra provincial police office for investigation but the suspect failed to present firearm documents. Appropriate charges is being prepared for filing in court against the suspect.


5-year-old girl blasted to death with a shotgun
ALAMINOS CITY,Pangasinan- A five-year-old day care girl died when she was fired upon with a 12-gauge shotgun in her room in Barangay Quilbar, this city. Police identified the victim as Rose-ann Barril y Suoc of Barangay Quibar.
Police said she was shot to death by unidentified persons. It was learned that the victim was playing inside their bedroom when a gunshot was heard by her grandfather, Avelino Barril y Borillo, 49, farmer.

He was then about to pick up a battery of a vehicle in the bedroom. When he investigated, he saw his granddaughter Rose-Ann sprawled on the floor of the bedroom, oozing with blood from the head and portion of the brain scattered on the concrete wall and ceiling.
He said he did not see anyone, suspecting that the gunman had run quickly away. The girl’s grandfather believed that a man with an old grudge against him might be the killer. – Jerry Padilla


4 gun ban violators arrested in Urdaneta
URDANETA CITY – Police arrested four gun ban violators in different barangays here for violating the Commi9ssion on elections gun ban.

Arrested suspects were Carlo Cabaobao y Marinas, 29, of 94 Barangay Nancayasan; Dominador Galima y Ordern, 51 and Placido Viernes y Sarcida, 54, both residents of Dilan – Plaurido, and Renato Espelita y Pecayo, 28, of Barangay Camanang.

The arrest of the said suspects were made in coordination with concerned citizens of Barangay Caviganan who reported the suspicious acts of the men who were allegedly armed with guns and handled radios.

Seized from them were a Cal. 45 pistol without marking, two magazines and 15 bullets for a Cal. 45 pistol.

The suspects were brought to Criminal Investigation and Detection Team Office for documentation and proper disposition. – Jennelyn Mondejar

Cable thieves arrested in Guagua, Pampanga
CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga – Two members of the so-called “cableman” were recently arrested by policemen while cutting telephone cables in Barangay Quillo, San Matias, Guagua, Pampanga.

Senior Supt. Keith Ernald Singian, Pampanga provincial police director, identified the arrested suspects as Albert Del Rosario, 19, and Ronnie Miranda (not his real name) alias “Doy-Doy,” 17, single, jobless, both residents of San Roque, Guagua town.

Singian said four cohorts of the two suspects were able to elude arrest when the Guagua police force arrived at the area.

Singian said a manhunt operation has been launched against the four suspects identified as “Binoe Ramirez” (not his real name, 17, Jason Casupanan alias Bad Boy, 27, married, Gerald Macapagal and Archie “Cheng-Cheng” Calilung.

Guagua police immediately sent a team of policemen after receiving a telephone call from the office of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) regarding the presence of a group allegedly stealing their company’s cables along Barangay Quilo, San Matias, Guagua.

The police team, accompanied by personnel of PLDT proceeded to the area and arrested the two suspects while they were cutting the cables. – George Trillo


Tarlac cops recover carnapped car
CONCEPCION, Tarlac – Joint elements of Tarlac Police Provincial Office and local policemen recovered a black Honda Accord without plate number along Parua River in a remote area in Barangay San Vicente here last Oct 27.

Insp. Calixto Q. Bamba said thy recovered a calling card under the name of Barney Rodriguez of Globus Asia Security Automation.

On Oct. 28, a certain Wesley Liu Rodriguez, 29, married of Rolling Hills New Manila, Quezon City, brother of the car owner Barnaby Hohn Rodriguez of the same address was accompanied by Task Force Limbas headed by Supt Fernando S. Villanueva who coordinated with Concepcion Police to claim his brother’s car.

Rodriguez said that his brother’s car was carnapped on Oct. 26, somewhere in San Juan City, Metro Manila.

After presenting documents of ownership, CPS turned over the said vehicle to Rodriguez. – George Trillo


Chop-chop motorcycles seized in Tarlac raid
GERONA, Tarlac – Some 61 dismantled motorcycles (chop-chop) were confiscated from a branch manager of an establishment in Metro Manila during a recent raid in his compound here in Barangay Pinasling.

In a report, Senior Supt. Nicanor Bartolome, Tarlac provincial police director, said Gerona policemen raided the house of a certain Villamor Paraiso, 48, branch manager of T-REX Marketing Corp. located along Jose Abad Santos, Sta. Cruz, Manila and confiscated the said items.

Bartolome said the raiding team was armed with a search warrant issued by Judge Domingo Jose of the Regional Trial Court Branch 64, Tarlac City when they raided the compound of Paraiso.

He said confiscated from the compound of Paraiso were 61 chop-chop motorcycles such as one Yamguchi, nine American eagle, two PMR pioneer, 18 Zhong Shen, and 30 Motor Star. – George Trillo


Designation of NLEX emergency lane urged
CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga – Central Luzon police director Chief Supt. Errol T. Pan urged the operator of the North Luzon Expressway to provide a lane for emergency on the tollway.
In a recent letter sent to Anthony M. Mabasa, president, and Oscar M. Lopez, chairman of the board of directors of the North Luzon Tollway Corp., Pan cited the importance of a lane designate for ambulances, police vehicles, firetrucks, prisoner’s transport vans and military vehicles so that movement in emergency cases is not delayed.

Pan said observations and experiences of some government agencies, particularly the Department of Health, Bureau of Fire Protection, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police, indicated that movement is impeded during emergencies. -- Mar Supnad