Super Radyo manager shot
USIG CHIEF LINKS IT TO LTO EXPOSE
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The officer-in-charge of RGMA Super Radyo in Bacolod City was shot and wounded by a deputized civilian agent of the Land Transportation Office in his hometown of Sagay City 8 a.m. yesterday.

Ferdinand "Bambi" Yngson, 46, was wounded in the left arm when the suspect, Romeo Bauden Corbo Jr., fired at him with a homemade shotgun in front of the new Sagay public market at Barangay Poblacion, Superintendent William Señoron, city police chief, said.

PO2 Joel Bancolinos, who was in the area, arrested Corbo, 39, immediately after the shooting, Señoron said. Chief Superintendent Geary Barias, chief of Task Force Usig, the special police unit created to look into the murders of activists and journalists, said the shooting may be related to the exposé of Yngson on the alleged selective method of arrests of traffic violators made by LTO personnel.

I defended myself,
his shooter claims
BY PATRICK PANGILINAN

A government employee tagged in the shooting of a radio station manager near a public market in Sagay City, Negros Occidental, yesterday claimed he just defended himself from the media man and his companion who manhandled and tried to shoot him.

Romeo Corbo Jr., a driver at the Engineering Department of the Sagay City Hall, said that he grabbed the homemade pistol from Regional Global Media Arts Bacolod City OIC station manager Ferdinand "Bambi" Yngson and shot him when the broadcaster pointed the gun at him after a confrontation.

Yngson has denied he was armed, and says he was shot without provocation.

Warrants out for 2 ex-cop chiefs;
I'm innocent, it's unjust: Ponteras
BY CARLA P. GOMEZ

Former Bacolod police chief Vicente Ponteras last night said he is innocent of the unjust charges filed against him for the kidnapping of a former city barangay captain, and is now in a "safe place" following the issuance of a warrant of arrest against him.

Ponteras told the DAILY STAR that a Regional Trial Court judge in Guihulngan, Oriental Negros, had issued on Tuesday a warrant of arrest against him and former Bacolod police chief George Bajelot for the kidnapping of ex-Pahanocoy Barangay Captain Eleuterio Salabas in August 2003. First Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Fidel Macauyag on July 12 this year filed an amended information, including Ponteras, Bajelot and police asset Cecil Brillantes in the kidnapping raps pending before the Guihulngan RTC.

The inclusion of Ponteras and Bajelot brought to 12 the number of policemen accused in the kidnapping of Salabas who was later found dead.