IN SAN CARLOS
3 heist
suspects nabbed

The police arrested three suspects in the robbery hold-up of a businesswoman Sunday at Nueva Era Street, Brgy. 5, San Carlos City, about 30 minutes after the commission of the crime.

The arrested suspects were identified by the police as Jovy Aresgar and Joven Rebanuel, both 19, and Crisanto Aguilar, 27, all of San Carlos City, Negros Occidental. Police investigations show that the suspects had robbed at gunpoint businesswoman Adela Canedo of P55,000 in cash.

Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz, San Carlos police chief, yesterday said pursuit operations conducted by his men, assisted by the victim, led to the arrest of the three suspects, but not the recovery of the stolen money which is believed to have been passed on to their accomplices, and the .38 caliber revolver used in the commission of the crime.

De la Paz said Canedo positively identified the arrested suspects as those ones who had forcibly taken her money.

Police investigations also showed that Aresgar had been involved in two stabbing incidents in previous years. However, complainants failed to file criminal complaints against him for unknown reasons, de la Paz also said.

A case of robbery was filed yesterday by the police before the San Carlos City Prosecutor's Office against the suspects who are now locked up in jail.*GPB

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Man runs amuck,
shot by cop

A policeman reportedly shot a Bacolod resident who ran amuck at Calong-Calong, Zone 1, Brgy. Singcang-Airport, Bacolod City at about 7 p.m. Sunday.

Rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital was Rogelio Budionganon Parar, 30, of Calong-Calong, in the barangay, and a native of Surigao del Sur, with a gunshot wound on his left foot allegedly inflicted by PO2 Rolito Flores, police reports said. Police Station 8 officer-in-charge SPO2 Cesar del Carmen yesterday said Flores and PO2 Noel Vergara responded to the area, when a concerned citizen informed them that Parar was hacking the house of Eddie Moyani Payumo.

Payumo, a barangay tanod, and his family ran for safety when Parar, armed with a 22-inch bolo, went berserk and attacked them, Del Carmen said.

The responding policemen tried to pacify Parar who was still hacking the walls of the house of Payumo, but the suspect ignored them.

Flores fired a warning shot and slowly approached Parar who in return attempted to hack him. The police officer fired his gun, hitting the suspect on the foot, del Carmen said. The policemen disarmed Parar when he fell to the ground, he added.

Flores and Payumo filed charges for direct assault against a person or agent in authority and for violation of Comelec Resolution 7764 and City Ordinance 358, or illegal possession of deadly weapon, del Carmen said.*DMG

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Kin of road mishap victims
disinterested in filing case

Chief Insp. Jefferson Descallar, Cadiz PNP head, yesterday said the family of the two persons who were killed when a Ceres bus rammed them in Cadiz City Saturday, has not yet executed affidavits for the filing of charges against the bus driver.

Descallar yesterday told the DAILY STAR in a phone interview, that a relative of the victim, Rina Alvarez, told him they might not file criminal charges against bus driver Jerry dela Torre because the bus company had shouldered all their expenses. He said, however, that the police is willing to help the family in case they decide to push through with the case.

On Saturday, Alvarez and her nephew were crossing the street at Km. 54, Crossing Valderrama, Brgy. Luna, Cadiz City at about 3 p.m., when the bus bumped them, police reports said.

Alvarez died on the spot, while the boy was rushed to the Cadiz District Hospital and was later transferred to the Silay Provincial Hospital where he died. De la Torre who was arrested by the police in a follow-up operation is still detained in the lock-up cell of the Cadiz PNP.*DMG

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