BOUNCING CHECK
Coordinate with city police,
Centrum management urged

Bacolod City police director, Senior Supt. Pedro Merced, yesterday said the Centrum Appliance management in Bacolod City should coordinate with his office for the filing of charges against a person who ordered several airconditioning units from the establishment on Feb 11, but had paid with check that bounced.

Merced said the crime can not be solved unless the establishment cooperates with the police and it would then only be included in the list of the unsolved cases in Police Precinct 1.

If there are no suspects to be arrested by the police, then the crime may be committed against other business establishments in the future, he added.

On Feb. 14, a sales promotion staff member of the Centrum Appliance at Rizal-Lacson streets in Bacolod City, reported to Police Precinct 1 that he received a faxed message from the New Dimension Builders and Development ordering 25 Carrier aircondition units from them.

The employee said the units were picked up by a certain James Durrano who ordered that the aircondition units be loaded on a Mitsubishi Canter truck with Plate Number THW-142, police reports said.

The employee claimed he later found out that the post-dated check of the New Dimension Builders and Development had been issued on a closed account, police reports also said.*DMG

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Hold-up man who
molested student nabbed

A suspected hold-upper who reportedly molested a student at Galo-Gasataya streets in Bacolod City Saturday was arrested by a 6th Regional Mobile Group trooper at downtown Bacolod at about 11:20 a.m. yesterday.

Cidy Villarias Gabiola, 32, of Purok Cabugwason, Brgy. Mansilingan in Bacolod City, was arrested by PO1 Hajji dela Cruz of 6th RMG in Silay City, Negros Occidental, yesterday, after the 19-year-old complainant positively identified him as responsible for holding her up and molesting her at about 5:45 a.m. Saturday.

The student, whose name is being withheld by the DAILY STAR, said she had visited a friend and was on her way to her boarding house when she noticed Gabiola following her.

She said Gabiola suddenly approached her, poked a gun at her and pushed her against the wall near her boarding house. She said she voluntarily handed her Nokia 6120 to Gabiola and pleaded with him not to harm her.

She said Gabiola took off his T-shirt and started kissing her and touching some parts of her body.

Fortunately, the nephew of her landlord came out and helped her, she said, Gabiola immediately escaped taking her cellphone and P500 in cash, she added.

The complainant's aunt, who requested not to be named, said she, her niece and her son PO1 Dela Cruz were about to eat their lunch at a food chain when the complainant spotted Gabiola at Gonzaga-Locsin streets.

Gabiola is now detained in the lock-up cell of Police Precinct 4 facing complaint for robbery with hold-up and acts of lasciviousness.*DMG

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Cops see irregularities
in driver's heist claim

An intensive investigation on the taxi driver who claimed he was held up and injured by two passengers Tuesday evening has been ordered by Bacolod City police director, Senior Supt. Pedro Merced, who said he has assigned the case to Senior Insp. Jonathan Lorilla, Police Precinct 6 station commander.

Initial police investigations have found irregularities in the claims of taxi driver Roberto Casidsid Jorbina, 27, of Purok Masagana, Brgy. 6, in the city, Merced said.

If Jorbina will not cooperate with police investigators, Merced said, he will order his arrest because it appears that he was making up the stories of his hold-up.

He said he will give Jorbina a chance to explain his side and to convince the police officers that he was telling the truth.

Merced said Jorbina had two lacerated wounds in his right arm and had claimed that, his neck was tied with a rope, but failed to show the rope marks.

Merced added that police investigation also showed Jorbina was a drug user.

Jorbina had reported that he was held up by his two passengers, a male and a female, behind a school at Doña Juliana Subdivision in Brgy. Taculing and that the suspects took his P1,300 in collection money, police reports said.*DMG

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