Theft charges were filed yesterday before the City Prosecutor's office against the three Bacolod residents arrested in the act of removing Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. cable wires worth P100,000 in Brgy. Cabug, Bacolod City, Wednesday.

Supt. Pedro Merced, Bacolod police officer-in-charge, yesterday said they may also file charges against junk shop owner Antonio Yee for violation of the Anti-Fencing Law.

A kilo of PLDT cable wires and 1 and 1/4 kilos of streetlight wires were recovered by the Precinct 9 operatives from his junk shop.

Darwin Cabahosa Tabo Tabo, 21, married, of Kahirup Village, Brgy. Sincang-Airport, a former helper of a PLDT contractor; Mar John Mahinay Lozada, 19, of Brgy. Pta. Taytay; and tricycle driver Vicente Aurelio Manese, of Brgy. Tangub, were nabbed Wednesday for allegedly stealing 100 meters of cable wire from the PLDT post in Brgy. Cabug, police reports said.

Meanwhile, Merced said the case of Sion David Geocadin, 20, a student of the STI College, who was allegedly mauled by a kiosk employee and four suspected members of the 6th Regional Mobile Group on Oct. 19, is considered solved after the case was filed at the City Prosecutor's Office on Oct. 26.

Establishing the identities of four other suspects is one of the problems faced by the police because several witnesses, including a member of the 6th RMG, surfaced, but had failed to identify who among the troopers were involved in the crime, Merced added.*DMG

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