SEXAGENARIAN, BOY'S STABBING
Man facing robbery,
murder attempts raps

The Bacolod police is preparing criminal charges against the prime suspect in the stabbing of a 60-year-old woman and her grandson at Lot 7, Block 21, Phase 1, Charito Heights Subdivision, in Brgy. Granada, Bacolod City Tuesday.

Insp. Renato Ofamen, Police Station 5 commander, yesterday told the DAILY STAR, the police will file attempted robbery and frustrated homicide charges against Ryan Espinido, 21, of Hacienda Carmen, Brgy. Granada, who is still at-large.

Ofamen said Espinido, a family friend, was positively identified by the 15-year-old boy as the one who broke into their house and stabbed him and his grandmother, Dolores Abquilan.

The boy told the police his grandmother was preparing their breakfast when the suspect entered the kitchen. He said he heard his grandmother shout for help.

He added that he chased Espinido who ran out of the house, but the latter stabbed him. Abquilan is still confined at a private hospital in Bacolod and could not yet give details of the incident, Ofamen said.*DMG

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Shop claims ownership
of 79 cellphones found

A cellular phone shop in Bacolod City yesterday claimed that it is the owner of the 79 cellular phones recovered by a security guard beside a bank at Araneta Street, in Bacolod City, Tuesday.

Police Station 1 commander Senior Insp. Joeresty Coronica yesterday said Charlin Gance, manager of the WQX Telecom Center, reported to the police station that unidentified persons entered their establishment Tuesday morning.

Coronica said he has directed case investigator SPO1 Willie Perez to conduct ocular investigation in the area to verify Gance's claims.

Perez said their investigation showed that the establishment had indeed been entered by unidentified persons who destroyed the window grills to get in. The suspects took the 79 cellphones from their respective boxes, he added.

He said the suspects put the phones in a bag, tied it with a wire and hung it near the window so that they could get it easily. However, the bag was found by security guard Douglas Tonogbanua, 39, of the Veterans Phil-Scout Security Agency, Perez said. He added that Gance said she failed to report the robbery to the police station because she was still waiting for the decision of the shop owner who was in China at the time.

He said Gance showed a serial number that matched with that of one of the phones. He said they are still waiting for additional serial numbers from the establishment before releasing the items to it.*DMG

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