Bacolod resident gets
18 years for homicide
BY DONALYN M. GUERRERO

A Regional Trial Court judge yesterday sentenced a Bacolod resident to 18 years imprisonment after he was found guilty of homicide, for stabbing dead his relative in Bacolod City, on Feb. 27 last year.

Judge Gorgonio Ybañez of the RTC, Branch 48 yesterday meted Emidio Sampilo Cauba 12 years and one day to 18 years of reclusion temporal for homicide, instead of murder after he voluntarily pleaded guilty to the offense.

Ybañez also ordered Cauba to pay the heirs of the victim, Gilbert Menosa Mahusay, P50,000 in death indemnity.

Cauba was accused of repeatedly stabbing Mahusay in the body, causing his death, court records said.

In a re-arraignment on Feb. 13, 2006, Mahusay, assisted by counsel, freely and spontaneously pleaded guilty to the lesser offense of homicide.*DMG

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Sipalay Bantay Dagat
gets new 28-footer boat

The Sipalay Bantay Dagat recently received a 28-footer Fiber Glass Boat through Rep. Juan Miguel Arroyo (Pampanga, 2nd district) and Rep. G.R. Alvarez III (Neg.Occ., 6th district), a press release from the office of Alvarez said.

This new boat will serve as deterrent to illegal fishers, it also said.

The project was implemented by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources through the effort of Mayor Oscar Montilla, it added.*

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