3 Bacoleños nabbed
for motorcycle theft

The Bacolod police yesterday arrested three Bacolod residents for allegedly stealing two motorcycles in Purok Boulevard, Brgy. 16, Bacolod City, Saturday.

Arrested were Michael Garcia Bayot, 22, alias "Pidoy", of Purok Laurel, Brgy. Mansilingan; Alfie Semillano Amar, alias "Ba-ak" and Maximo Canama Jr., 18, alias "Mok-mok", both of Purok Boulevard, Brgy. 16, all in Bacolod City, police reports said.

One of the complainants Jovito Tronggo, of Purok Katilingban, Brgy. Banago told the police the suspects waylaid him and forcibly took his motorcycle, police reports said.

In an interview with the DAILY STAR, Canama denied involvement in the crime, saying he and his companions only borrowed the motorcycle from a friend and he did not know they were stolen.

Senior Insp. Joeresty Coronica, Police Station 1 commander, yesterday said police records show Canama has two pending charges before the Bacolod City Prosecutor's Office and has been identified as one of the four persons who stabbed to death a tricycle driver at the Bacolod reclamation area on Nov. 13, 2006.

Coronica said Canama was also one of the suspects who held up a trisikad passenger in front of an elementary school at Rosario Street, Brgy. 14 Bacolod on Nov. 21, 2005. He said Canama, Amar and Bayot will be presented at the office of acting Bacolod police director Senior Supt. Ronilo Quebrar today.*DMG

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1 stabbed after altercation

A resident of E.B. Magalona town reportedly stabbed Ernesto Layron Gale, of Purok Radabilla, Brgy. Mandalagan, Bacolod City, at Burgos-Hilado Streets, at about 4 p.m. Friday, during an altercation, police reports said.

Gale was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital with stab wounds on his left shoulder and the right side of his hip, allegedly inflicted by Albert Nalagon, of E.B Magalona town, police reports said. Reports said Nalagon stabbed Gale when he refused to give him P10.

Joseph Hosalia de Oro, of Purok Kamunsil, Brgy. Bata, Bacolod City was also rushed to the CLMMRH with head injuries allegedly inflicted by Efren Baylosis Javier, in front of a bar at 21st Street, Bacolod City, at about 3 a.m. Saturday, police reports said.

Javier hit de Oro with an unidentified object when they engaged in an argument, which resulted in a commotion, police reports said. Javier, of Purok Magnolia, Brgy. 7, is now detained in the lock-up cell of Police Station 2, while de Oro is still confined at the CLMMRH, police reports also said.*DMG

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Establishment
in city robbed

Unidentified persons broke into a Bacolod establishment at 11th-Lacson streets, Bacolod City and took several valuables, including a laptop computer at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday.

Ma Valli Silva, branch manager of the Wide Wide World Express Corp. - DHL Express told the police the suspect destroyed the padlock of the door to gain entrance. She said the suspect forced the safety vault open with a crow bar and took an undetermined amount of cash and checks.

The suspects also took the Laptop HP Pentium 4 worth P50,000 and a bag.

At 5:30 p.m. of the same day, Dolores Tawag Barbas, 60, turned over the bag to Police Station 2, which she claimed was found by jeepney driver Ian Gantalao, 25, in Brgy. Singcang-Airport, Bacolod City, police reports said.

The bag contained three safety cash boxes with checks and assorted documents, police reports said.

Meanwhile, Enrique Albay Chua, 46, married, of Don Antonio Street, Brgy. Mansilingan, Bacolod City reported to Police Station 2 that unidentified persons also broke into his fruit store at B.S. Aquino Drive, Capitol Shopping Center at about 9:30 p.m. Friday. Chua said the suspects destroyed the sliding window of the store and stole his digital weighing scale and a box of apples worth P5,000, police reports said.*DMG

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