Raps filed vs. bar owner,
9 dancers for lewd show

The Bacolod police yesterday filed charges for violation of Article 202 of the Revised Penal Code, or indecent show and obscene exhibition, before the City Prosecutor's Office against the bar owner and nine bar dancers arrested in a raid conducted by Precinct 1 policemen in Bacolod City Sunday.

Case investigator SPO1 Willie Perez of Police Precinct 1 yesterday filed the charges against Bobby Tacorda, owner of Spider 1 at Rosario-Mabini streets in Bacolod City and his nine dancers, one of them a 15-year-old girl, who were dancing on the stage reportedly baring the upper part of their bodies.

Chief Insp. Jimmy Fortaleza, Precinct 1 commander, yesterday said the women, whose identities are being withheld by the DAILY STAR, were also performing indecent shows on the stage.

Fortaleza said he will refer the women, aged 15 to 23, to the Bacolod City Health Office for medical check-up to determine whether they have acquired a sexually transmitted disease. The women were still in the custody of the Police Precinct 1 up to press time yesterday.*DMG

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NOPPO cops
attend bomb lecture

Bacolod City Police Office bomb technician Denny Montoya discussed the components of bombs in a lecture Saturday at the Special Weekend Academy Training, being held at the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office headquarters, in Bacolod City, a NOPPO press release said.

Montoya took up the various firing devices, blasting caps/detonators, explosives and the history of gunpowder, nitroglycerin and trinitrotoluene or TNT, it also said.

He also discussed precautionary measures that should be taken to prevent bomb explosions and the proper handling and disposal of explosive materials.

The seminar was participated in by about 50 police non-commissioned officers detailed to the NOPPO main office, various city and town police stations, and the provincial mobile groups, the press release added.*

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5 Bacoleños arrested
for using rugby

Five Bacolod residents were apprehended by a barangay kagawad and his tanods for allegedly sniffing a volatile substance, locally known as "rubgy" at a residence in Purok Malipayon, Brgy. 35 in Bacolod City, yesterday.

Brgy. kagawad Ruperto Legada, 55, of Brgy. 35, Bacolod City and his tanods arrested Jonathan Batoy, 18, of Guilongan, Cauayan town, Negros Occidental; Ronald dela Cruz Magdaluyo, 23, of Quezon-Yulo streets, Brgy. 34, Bacolod City; Ralph Cabandan Salibio, 24, Crisostomo Tuvilla Hillares Jr., 28, and Jerry Hillares all of Brgy. 35, police reports said.

Legada and barangay tanods Ramil Sapa, Noel Varca and Reynold Sapa were conducting visibility patrol operations in the barangay when they spotted the five in the residence of Crisostomo Hillares, police reports said.

Recovered from them were six sachets and two bottles containing suspected rugby and a slingshot, police reports said.

Legada and his companions endorsed the five who were also believed to be under the influence of intoxicating liquor to Police Precinct 1 for violation of Presidential Decree 1619, or sniffing of volatile substance, police reports said.*DMG

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