4 hold-up men nabbed

Four persons were apprehended by the Bacolod police yesterday for their alleged involvement in robbery hold-up and cellphone snatching incidents in the city.

Police Precinct 2 operatives led by their station commander Insp. Levy Pangue, apprehended Ringgo Ragomeo, Bonnie Valientes, in Brgy. Alijis after they reportedly held up a 30-year-old man at the Bacolod reclamation area at about 5:45 a.m. Tuesday.

Rogomeo and Valientes, both 22, and residents of Purok Narra-Baybay, Brgy. 8, were identified by complainant Edson Gaite de Jose as the one who had robbed him, Pangue said.

He added that Jimboy Custodio, a companion of Rogomeo and Valientes escaped and is still at-large.

Recovered from Ragomeo and Valientes were Nokia 3310 and 3210 cellphones. They are now detained in the lock-up cell of Police Precinct 2 for robbery with hold-up charges, police reports said.

Ragomeo said he was forced to commit the crime because he has no other means for paying the hospital bills of his 7-month-old baby who has been confined for loose bowel movement.

Meanwhile, alleged cellphone snatchers Richard Tutop, 18 and Norberto Jeva, 21, both of Purok Seresa South, Brgy. 3 were arrested by Senior Insp. Ulysses Ortiz, Precinct 4 commander and his men after they snatched the cellphones of a student near the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod at about 1 p.m. yesterday.

Recovered from Tutop and Jeva were Nokia 7210, 3215 and 3310 cellphones identified by Kranshy Reyes, of Talisay City as hers, Ortiz said.

Tutop and Jeva also endorsed two Nokia 3310, 6150 and 3210 cellphones to the police station, he added.

De Jose, meanwhile, said he was on his bicycle on his way to the house of a friend near the Bacolod reclamation area when Ragomeo and his companions blocked him and declared a hold-up taking his bag, P1,000 and Nokia 3310 cellphone.

Meanwhile, Pangue and his men yesterday recovered the Kawasaki KMX 125 motorcycle of Edgar Taglorin Abonales that was stolen by an unidentified person in a parking area of the Riverside Medical Center at B.S. Aquino drive in Bacolod City Monday.

The San Carlos PNP identified the person responsible for taking the motorcycle as Wilmer Laroja, of San Carlos City who was arrested for separate carnapping charges, Pangue said.

He said Abonales positively identified the recovered motorcycle as his and he is preparing charges against Laroja.

On Monday, Abonales parked his motorcycle at B.S. Aquino drive and was surprised to discover it gone. He suspected that the two unidentified persons he noticed in the area were responsible for taking his motorcycle, police reports said.*DMG

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5 killed in
separate incidents

Five persons died in stabbing, hacking and traffic accidents in Negros Occidental between Jan. 27 and 30, police reports said.

Two of the five victims, Warlito Monteferte, 16, and Jose Llabore, died in highway accidents in Brgys. 2 and Makiling in Sagay City.

Monteferte was sideswiped by a cargo truck owned by businessman Julius Amador and driven by Alejandro Fernandez at Crossing Martinez, in Brgy. 2 poblacion, Sagay City on Jan. 27.

Police investigations show that the cargo truck rammed an electric post of VRESCO and two sari-sari stores owned by Christian Santillan and Susana Quidato in the place.

Fortunately, nobody was injured, the police said.

The next day, Llabore died when he was sideswiped by a Mitsubihi Fuzo Canter truck driven by Lemuel Mojillo in Brgy. Makiling, Sagay City.

Meanwhile, an 18-year-old hacked to death a man who allegedly tried to molest her in Brgy. Carol-an, Kabanklan City, on Jan. 28, the police said.

The victim identified as Homer Perequin, 19, sustained multiple hack wounds in the different parts of his body, causing his death.

The suspect whose identity is being withheld, was arrested by Carol-an barangay tanod Libreto Lagrado who had turned her over to the Kabankalan City Police Station.

In Brgy. Winaswasan, Calatrava, a certain Jose Sambilad was shot dead, allegedly by his own cousin, Romeo Sambilad, on Jan. 29.

Jose was hit in the chest and left shoulder, the police said.

On Tuesday, tricycle driver Edgardo Cervantes gave himself up to the police after he confessed to stabbing Marlon Destacamento in Hinigaran.

Police investigations show Cervantes who was about to board his tricycle, was hit with a piece of wood in the left ear by Destacamento.

Cervantes retaliated by stabbing Destacamento with a kitchen knife, the police said.

Senior Inspector Regidor Alvarado, Hinigaran police chief, in his report to Senior Supt. Charles Calima, police provincial director, said the incident was triggered by a land conflict.*GPB

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