2 foreigners robbed

Two foreigners lost their money and belongings to still unidentified persons in robbery and theft incidents in Bacolod City during the weekend. These occurred barely three months after the police set up tourist assistance desks in police stations to support the tourism program of the city, police reports said.

Barbara Greenlees, 41, of 2/33, Karome Street, Pacific Paradise, Queensland, Australia, told Police Station 2 investigators that unidentified persons stole her wallet with P10,000 in cash, her passport, bankcards, and airline tickets, by slashing her shoulder bag.

Greenlees told the police that she discovered that her valuables had been stolen as she was about to pay her bill at the Bed and Breakfast Pension House at 11th Street, Bacolod, at about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, after coming from Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.

Meanwhile, Indian Harbans Singh of Grand Estancia Subdivision, Brgy. Mandalagan, Bacolod, reported to Police Station 2 that two unidentified persons waylaid and robbed him of his P1,000 in cash, after noon Saturday, police records show.

Singh said he was riding his motorcycle at 22th-Calamba streets, Bacolod, when the suspects stopped him and took his money at knifepoint, police reports said.*PP

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Trisikad driver
nabbed for drugs

A trisikad driver who claimed he was arrested for theft, was detained by the police on suspicion of using prohibited drugs in Bacolod City early yesterday.

The police said Jimmy Sebellieta, 22, of Camingawan, Brgy. Estefania, Bacolod, was nabbed by Police Station 6 members led by PO2 Ludovico de la Raya, after he was seen smoking a marijuana cigaret at Carmen Street, Bacolod, at about 1:40 a.m. yesterday.

Sebellieta, however, said that the supposed marijuana stick was not his, and that he was arrested when he snatched the wallet of a woman at the Libertad area and after he was mobbed by bystanders.

He said he tried to steal because he did not have money to go home to Escalante City, Negros Occidental, and visit his mentally-ill father. He also exhibited his wounds that, he said, were inflicted by bystanders who saw him grab the wallet.

Sebellieta’s wife, Rosalie, said the officers may have “planted” the marijuana cigaret “to pile up cases against him.”

Police Station 6 commander, Chief Inspector Ulysses Ortiz, meanwhile, said Sebellieta’s wounds were indeed inflicted by bystanders, not because he robbed a woman, but because he tried to flee from the officers who saw him smoking marijuana.

Ortiz also said that Sebellieta is a known snatcher in the area of Police Station 1.

Drug charges will be filed against Sebellieta if the laboratory tests on the marijuana stick seized from him yield positive results, Ortiz said.*PP

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IN LA CARLOTA
7 persons arrested
for illegal gambling

Seven persons were arrested for violation of Republic Act 9287, or the amended gambling law, in Brgy. La Granja, La Carlota City, Negros Occidental.

Nabbed were Joel Seva, alleged “mayor corridor” of the illegal gambling outfit with the codename Camia, John Mijares, Sheryl Seva, Carmenchita Estelloso, Noling Samsong, Igmedio Nicor and Alex Paquis.

Senior Inspector Rico Santotome, chief of the Negros Occidental police Special Operations Group, said they were caught in the act of engaging in illegal gambling operations.

Recovered from them were assorted illegal gambling paraphernalia, a Nokia 8210 cellphone and P1.341 in alleged cash bets.

The suspects are now detained at the lock-up cell of the La Carlota City Police Station, pending the filing of charges against them.*GPB

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