Suspect in slay of Aklan
broadcaster surrenders
BY NESTOR P. BURGOS JR.

ILOILO CITY – A suspect in the 2001 murder of Aklan broadcaster Rolando Ureta surrendered to the police yesterday, three weeks after another suspect was arrested.

Jessie Ticar disclosed his plan to surrender during an interview aired over radio station dyKR of Radio Mindanao Network, of which Ureta was program director when he was gunned down on January 3, 2001.

Ticar asked policemen from the Kalibo police station to arrest him at the office of his lawyer, Joann Ibutnande, Senior Superintendent Benigno Durana Jr., Aklan provincial police director, said.

Bindoy cousins injured
in stabbing, shooting
BY RENE GENOVE

Two cousins were injured when they shot and hacked each other at about 9 a.m. Thursday, in Barangay Poblacion, Bindoy, Negros Oriental, police report said yesterday.

Investigation showed that Ernesto Arias, of Brgy. Poblacion, married, had a heated argument with his cousin, Sergio Vailoces, married, of Brgy. Tinaogan, Bindoy, over a portion of the coconut plantation owned by Villasis' parents, that was mortgaged to Arias.

Villasis suddenly drew his gun, prompting Arias to grab it, but he was hit in the body, and was brought to the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital .

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