Jesus Quevenco with Ferdinand Marcos, right in the 1960's.* (click here for story)

A resident of Brgy. Taculing in Bacolod City has filed administrative and criminal charges before the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas against Brgy. Captain Rommel Sanson and Josephine Gonzales, the barangay treasurer of Taculing.

In his complaint, Mario Asis, who charged the two for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, or R.A. 3019 and Art. 217 of the Revised Penal Code, claimed that he discovered that Sanson and Gonzales were involved in some anomalous transaction using the funds of the barangay.

Police arrest alleged
pusher for molestation
BY DONALYN GUERRERO

A suspected drug pusher from Silay City was arrested by the Bacolod police for allegedly molesting a 12-year-old girl in a lodge in Brgy. Bata, Bacolod City, at about 8:20 a.m. Saturday.

Detained at the lock-up cell of Police Precinct 3 was Charlie Javellana Balbon Sr., of Purok Mambulak, Silay City, for violations of section 10, Article 6 of Republic Act 7610, or Child Abuse, police reports said.

A DAILY STAR source who requested anonymity, yesterday said Balbon invited the minor, whose name is being withheld by the police, to go to Bacolod City Saturday.

'Customer' holds
up LBC worker
BY DONALYN GUERRERO

A woman reported to Police Precinct 1 that an unidentified person held her up at gunpoint at the LBC Express Inc. office at Lacson Street in Bacolod City at about 1 p.m. Saturday, police reports said.

Charlotte Dela Cruz Abancio, 28, single, of Katiklan, Victorias City, Negros Occidental told the police that an unidentified person posing as a customer approached her at her office, and poked a .38 caliber revolver at her and declared a hold-up and threatened to shoot her if she would not hand to him a box which contained her collection of P10,000 in different denominations, police reports said.

Abancio said the hold-upper also took her cellphones.