3 nabbed for crude oil
theft in E.B. Magalona

Two drivers and their accomplice in Brgy. Alicante, E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental were arrested by the police Wednesday night.

Caught in the act by patrolling policemen led by Senior Insp. Santiago Rapiz engaging in oil pilferage were truck drivers Sonny Canoy, 42, his nephew, Rogelio Sabanal, both of Brgy. Bato, Sagay City, and Rosito Ere.

Recovered from the two truck drivers were two big containers filled with crude oil and a 10-meter water hose.

Rapiz said there have been numerous complaints from cane truck owners in the areas of Silay, E.B.Magalona and Victorias. Victims of the crude oil pilferage were mostly cane trucks owned by members of the Associated Planters of Silay-Sarabia Inc.

Initial police investigations show that Canoy and Sabanal, with the help of Ere, siphoned the crude oil from the cargo trucks they were driving and sold it to a vulcanizing shop owned by Teresita Jance Villanueva in Brgy. Alicante, E.B, Magalona.

Rapiz, who re-assumed the E.B. Magalona police command on Feb. 19, said he will file qualified theft charges against the two truck drivers of Selwin Javelosa, and Ere, who are now detained at the town police jail.

In Brgy. Saguabanwa, Valladolid, the police arrested three more violators of illegal gambling. Nabbed were Guadalope Gardoce, Joeben Alles and Jimmy Tirol. Recovered from them were P134 in alleged cash bets and assorted illegal gambling paraphernalia.*GPB

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Man shoots wife's 'lover'

The police are eyeing a love angle in the shooting of a 27-year-old man allegedly by a Calatrava resident at Gonzaga Street in Bacolod City at about 11:25 a.m. yesterday.

Rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital with a gunshot wound on his back was Chris Dinero Lesaca, single, of Hacienda Chiquita, E.B. Magalona town, Negros Occidental, case investigator SPO1 Willie Perez told the DAILY STAR yesterday.

Lesaca's alleged assailant, identified as Alvin Caramihan, also of Calatrava town and temporary residing in Brgy. 16, Bacolod City, managed to escape and was at-large up to press time yesterday, Perez said.

Initial reports said Lesaca was shot while walking along Gonzaga Street. He told the police he ran to a nearby restaurant to hide, but the suspect chased and shot him again. The second bullet hit the display counter of Chinky's Restaurant, police reports said.

Recovered from the scene was a deformed slug of a .38 caliber revolver, Perez said. The police said their investigation revealed that the suspect's wife is living with the victim.*DMG

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