Multiple charges filed
vs. 5 gamefowl robbers

The Bacolod police yesterday filed charges of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition and illegal possession of drugs against the five suspects who were arrested for stealing fighting cocks at Pleasantville Subdivision, Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod City, Friday morning, before the City Prosecutor's Office.

SPO1 Nelson Grijaldo, team leader of the City Anti-Drugs Special Operations Task Group, yesterday told the DAILY STAR in a phone interview, that charges for violation of Republic Act 8294, or illegal possession of firearms and section 11 of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002 were filed against Richard Castro, 29, Roger Mahilum, 27, Rodolfo Suelan, 31, Robert Celestial, 32 and George Montes, 42, all of Bacolod City. On Friday, the CAIDSOTG operatives led by SPO4 Ernesto Gonzales nabbed the five suspects for possessing about 40 fighting cocks allegedly stolen from Murcia and Binalbagan towns in Negros Occidental, police reports said.

Aside from the fighting cocks, the drug operatives recovered a 12-gauge firearm, locally known as "sumpak" with six bullets and a sachet of suspected shabu from Suelan and a partially burned marijuana cigaret from Castro, police reports said.

A pair of pliers and a fan knife were recovered from Mahilum, four M-16 bullets from Celestial, and two sticks of marijuana cigarets from Montes, police reports also said.

Grijaldo said the CAIDSOTG referred to the Murcia PNP the filing of robbery charges against the five suspects who are still detained in the lock-up cell of the Bacolod police office.*DMG

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