Bago PNP holds suspect
in slay of married woman

A jobless person accused of molesting his sister-in-law in year 2000, is now temporarily detained at the police lock-up cell after a witness tagged him also as a suspect in the recent hold up-slay of a married woman in Bago City, Negros Occidental.

The lifeless body of Jenniver Pelingon, 33, that bore multiple stab wounds was found by his neighbors at Km. 14 in Brgy. Calumangan, Bago City, on Saturday night.

SPO3 Isabelita Dioso, Bago chief of the Bago police Women and Children's Concerns Desk, yesterday said indications showed that the assailant attempted to rape Pelingon, as her pants and underwear had been pulled down.

Dioso, however, said a post-mortem report showed that she had not been molested.

The bag of Pelingon was also missing indicating that she had been robbed, police investigations also showed.

The police witness whose identity is being withheld, is also the brother-in-law of the person invited for questioning identified as Ramiro Hele, alias Ramy.

Police investigations also said that Pelingon was on her way home at Km 14 in the barangay, when she was waylaid by the suspect. Several minutes before the incident, the police witness, who was mistaken for a woman, was almost pounced upon by the suspect who was hiding behind a tamarind tree, at the crime scene.

Dioso said Hele had been detained in previous years for allegedly molesting his sister-in-law in July 16, 2000. However, the rape case filed against him was later withdrawn by his brother and other members of the family, for unknown reasons. The hold up-slay incident came three week after 13-year Ma. Teresa Medrano was also raped and brutally killed by still unidentified suspects in Brgy. Don Jorge Araneta, also in Bago City.

Dioso said they are still waiting for the results of the laboratory examinations on the bloodstains found in the house of one of the suspects in the barangay.*GPB

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2 collared for homicide,
frustrated murder raps

Two persons, one a minor, were arrested by the Philippine National Police yesterday and Friday for homicide and frustrated murder charges, the police said.

A 17-year-old resident of Purok Pag-asa, Brgy. 17, Bacolod City, was nabbed by Police Station 2 officers led by SPO1 Vicente Canuday for killing another minor at the Capitol Lagoon last year, police records showed.

Alias "Katoy" was arrested on the strength of a warrant issued by Bacolod City Regional Trial Court Branch 43 Judge Philadelfa Agraviador for the slay of Aljen Repilos on November 26, 2006, at about 11 a.m. yesterday.

Katoy's companions, Arnel Dulman and Sandy Managuit, had been apprehended earlier by the police on robbery charges after they held up an Amity fire brigade volunteer. They are now detained at the Bacolod City Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, Canuday said. "Katoy" said that he, Dulman, and Managuit stabbed and shot Repilos after he harassed their friend's girlfriend.

A P40,000 bail was recommended by Agraviador for the three suspects temporary liberty.

Meanwhile, John Rey Diosa, 22, of Purok AC Yulo, Brgy. Sum-ag, Bacolod City, was arrested by Police Station 9 officers led by PO3 Junji Liba for frustrated murder charges in Purok AC Yulo at about 5:45 p.m. Friday, police reports said.

The warrant was issued by Bacolod City Regional Trial Court Branch 51 Judge Anita Chua, police reports added.

Diosa has been remitted to the Bacolod City Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, the police said.*PP

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