CIDG 'asset' arrested
for shooting Bacoleño

An alleged asset of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group is the suspect in the shooting of a 33-year-old man in front of the Bacolod Bistro, Burgos Street in Bacolod City at about 10 p.m. Saturday.

Rey Lagantol Bacani of Purok Pag-asa, Fortune Towne, Brgy. Estefania, Bacolod City was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital with gunshot wounds in his stomach and buttocks allegedly inflicted by Henry Pormenter Saldejeno, 54, of Brgy. Villamonte, police reports said.

Insp. Levy Pangue, Precinct 2 commander told the DAILY STAR yesterday, he is still verifying reports that Saldejeno is, indeed, a CIDG asset. Intial reports said Bacani and his two companions were walking in front of the Bacolod Bistro when they reportedly slammed with their hands the pick-up of Saldejeno, which resulted in an altercation, and later to the shooting.

Pangue said Saldejeno is now in their custody for further investigation after Bacani's companions positively identified him as the one who shot them.*DMG

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House helper steals cash,
jewelry items from couple

A Bacolod couple yesterday reported that they lost about P160,000 worth of jewelries and P20,000 in cash to their houseboy at Lopez Jaena Street in Bacolod City.

Antonio Milabo and his wife, Nelsie, owners of the Milabo Junkshop, complained to Police Precinct 6 that they discovered that their jewelry sets and money placed in a drawer in their room were already gone at about 1 a.m. yesterday.

The couple suspected their houseboy, Ed Hautea, or being responsible for taking the items because he left their residence without any reason after a confrontation between them Thursday, police reports said.

They claimed that their housemaids saw Hautea possessing duplicate keys to the main door and to their rooms. Among the missing jewelry items were five necklaces, earrings and bracelets, police reports also said.

Meanwhile, Mark Victorino Jacintos, 37, single, of Burgos-Gatuslao streets, Brgy. 9, Bacolod City reported to Police Precinct that unidentified persons broke into his sing-along bar at Burgos-Gatuslao streets at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Jacintos said the culprits forcibly opened his videoke machine's safety box and took all the P5 coins that total P2,500, police reports said.*DMG

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PDEA nabs drug pusher

Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested on Friday a suspected drug pusher who had allegedly been engaged in selling prohibited drugs for 10 years in Purok Sigay, Brgy.2, Bacolod City.

Armed with a search warrant issued by Judge Roberto Chiongson, a team of PDEA agents led by Supt. Rolen Balquin swooped down on the house of Marilyn Cordova in the place.

Balquin said the raid yielded 51 sachets of suspected shabu and the arrest of Cordova who is now locked up at Police Precinct 2, pending the filing of charges against her for violation of Section 11 of Republic Act 9165, known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

PDEA investigations show that Cordova had been allegedly peddling prohibited drugs since 1995.*GPB

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