5 teens rob resto

Two employees of the Pavilion Hotel and Restaurant in Bacolod City reported to Police Precinct 1 that five teenagers waylaid and held them up at the Bacolod reclamation area at Burgos Street in the city at about 12:30 a.m. yesterday.

Mar Robles Ortega, 34, married, of Brgy. Matab-ang, Talisay City and Milagros Mahipos Esparagosa, 38, of Ibarra Street, Silay City both in Negros Occidental, said they were on their way home when the five teenagers armed with tube pipes blocked them and held them up, police reports said.

The group grabbed Ortega's bag that contained P9,000 in cash and important documents, and Esparagosa's bag with P1,200 also in cash, police reports said.

Three of the boys, aged 16 to 17 were later arrested by the Police Precinct 1, City Mobile Group, Crime Monitoring Action Group and Traffic Management Unit and who were identified by the complainants as among those who held them up.

Two of the three claimed they were students of a public high school in the city but denied involvement in the crime. They said a certain "Richie" and his companions invited them to stroll at the Bacolod reclamation, but they had no idea about the plan of the group to commit a crime.*DMG

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Ilahas seizes 4 boat
hulls in Hinobaan

The Task Force Ilahas, assisted by operatives of the Maritime Command and policemen, yesterday confiscated four "boat hulls" made of lauan, estimated at 200 board feet, in Brgy. Culipapa, Hinobaan, Negros Occidental.

SPO1 Stanley Mendoza, a TFI member, yesterday said the hulls were confiscated from Romeo Malunes, Simplico Macabinguil, Johnny Macahindog and Wilfredo Yunsay, all residents of the barangay. TFI investigations show that the "lauan" timber, converted into boat hulls, had been sold by a certain "Bolantoy" for P11,000 to the four persons on Feb. 27.

Mendoza said the lauan timber was reportedly cut from a reforestation project in Sitio Semeco, Brgy. Culipapa, Hinobaan.

The hulls are now in the custody of Purok President Gaudioso Tindero.*GPB

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Minor draws 8 years
for raping 3-year-old

A Regional Trial Court judge yesterday sentenced a 14-year-old boy from Cauayan town to a minimum of six years and a maximum of eight years imprisonment for raping a three-year-old girl on Oct. 15, 2004.

Judge Henry Arles found the teenager guilty beyond reasonable doubt although the enforcement of the sentence imposed on the minor will be suspended because of his age.

The teenager, who pleaded guilty, will be committed to the custody and care of the Department of Social Welfare and Development or to any training institution operated by the government until he reaches 21. The court informed the accused of the consequences of his plea of guilty, and said that, his plea was voluntary and not made through threats or intimidation, Arles said. *CPT

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