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Bacolod City, Philippines Monday, February 20, 2006
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Robbers take cash, jewelry
at former councilor's house
BY DONALYN GUERRERO

Two residents reported to Police Precinct 4 that unidentified persons ransacked and robbed their residences in Bacolod City over the weekend.

Former Bacolod Councilor Mariano Valladares Villarosa, 64, married, of Calle Verde, Capitol Heights in Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod City, told the police that unidentified persons climbed the wall of his house, destroyed its window screen and detached some of its jalousies to gain entrance at about 2 a.m. yesterday, police reports said.

Villarosa said the culprits took several jewelry sets, including a necklace with seven diamonds, a pair of earrings with a diamond, a ring with solitaire diamond, Rolex wristwatch, two Nokia and a Motorola cellphone and P186,000 in cash, police reports said

. The robbers also took his wallet with documents and P300 in cash, Villarosa added.

Meanwhile, Salome Gelaver Sia, 49, married, of Therese Homes in Brgy. Taculing reported to Police Precinct 6 that unidentified persons ransacked her mini-grocery at the Circumferential Road in the city at about 3 a.m. Saturday, police reports said.

Sia said the robbers destroyed the window of her store to enter and took several items like canned goods, sachets of shampoo, boxes of cigarets, a sack of rice and several bottles of softdrinks which total to about P60,000, police reports also said.

In another incident, John Michael Lazerna Mayongue, 24, single, of 21st Margarita Extension in Bacolod City also reported to Police Precinct 4 that his Nokia 3120 cellphone worth P6,500 was stolen by an unidentified person while he was riding a passenger jeepney at Burgos-Lopez Jaena streets at about 7:35 a.m. Saturday.

Mayongue said he suspected his fellow passenger who alighted at Gonzaga-Lopez Jaena streets as the one who took his cellphone, police reports also said.*DMG

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