4 nabbed for holdup

Four suspected holduppers were arrested by the Bacolod police for allegedly grabbed the Nokia 3315 cellphone of Mark Villalon of Jalandon Street in Brgy. 6 who was walking near the Provincial Capitol Lagoon in Bacolod City at about 12:30 a.m. yesterday.

Apprehended by Police Precinct 2 and City Mobile Group were Julius Alic Agdana, 18, and three minors, aged 15 to 17, police reports said.

Villalon said one of the hold-uppers poked an ice pick at him and took his cellphone.

In a hot-pursuit operation, Insp. Levy Pangue, Police Precinct 2 commander, and Chief Insp. Armando Tubongbanua, CMG group director, arrested Agdana and two 17-year-old boys, while their 15-year-old companion was voluntarily surrendered by his mother to the police station. Pangue said Bryan Longno and Arman Macairan who were also identified as companions of the four suspects managed to escape and are still at-large.

The cellphone identified by Villalon as his was recovered at the Aurelio Compound at 3rd-Lacson streets in Brgy. 17 at about 1:30 a.m. yesterday, police added.

Meanwhile, Agdana and his companions said they took Villalon's cellphone when they saw him texting while walking in the area. They said they planned to sell the cellphone and divide the money.

Agdana and the three minors are now detained in the lock-up cell of Police Precinct 2, facing robbery with hold-up complaints.*DMG

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Security guards apprehend
14-year-old for snatching

A minor is now under police detention after he was arrested by two security guards at the Dumaguete City public market for allegedly snatching the coin purse of an early morning shopper this week.

Mariejane Banolaria of Noblefranca Street, Dumaguete City, said she was walking at the public market at about 6 a.m. when the boy snatched her purse, containing P620, and then ran off.

However, two security guards of Equatorial Security Agency - Seyer Reyes and Ramil Diano saw the incident, chased the boy and caught him and turned him over to the Dumaguete City police.

Before that, however, irate bystanders allegedly beat him up.

SPO1 Luis Lacandula, police investigator, said the boy had earlier been arrested when he was also caught by Dumaguete City Drug Abuse Council officer, Fernando Martinez, climbing out of a window of the Immaculate Church along San Jose street Monday noon. He was released later, however.

The boy admitted the incident, but said that he had climbed in only to sleep and that when he woke up at noon, he found the doors locked so he climbed out the window.*RG

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