Tricycle driver nabbed
for ‘bribing’ traffic aide

Traffic aide Ronaldo Verdeflor endorsed to Police Station 4 Aquiline Daculong Jr. who allegedly tried to bribe him with P100 at about 9 a.m. yesterday, PO2 Ronald Villeran said.

Verdeflor told the police he had apprehended Daculong because the tricycle he was driving did not have a conduction sticker and a body number, but the driver allegedly tried to “settle” the violations by handing him two P50 bills with serial numbers, WNO019284 and WS268518.

TMU chief, Senior Inspector Levy Pangue, had earlier said that the green and white conduction stickers issued by the Bacolod City government through the TMU are an annual requirement for public utility jeepneys.

Villeran said Verdeflor has not yet decided if he or the Bacolod Traffic Management Authority Office will file the charges against Daculong.*PP

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BREDCO robbery
suspects post bail

The two men suspected of cutting off an estimated P4 million worth of metal parts from an impounded ship in Bacolod City, were released after posting bail yesterday, the police said.

Salvador Sagayca, 21, and Roy Magusara, 40, were released from detention after they both posted the P24,000 recommended bail for each of the robbery charges filed against them by the Bureau of Customs Thursday, Police Station 1 commander, Chief Inspector Noel Manaay, said.

Sagayca and Magusara were arrested by a combined team of Maritime Command and National Bureau of Investigation members while they were cutting pieces of steel on board the M/V Murphy at about 8 p.m. Tuesday, MARICOM Bacolod chief, Chief Inspector Ervin Glenn Provido, said.

Recovered from the two were four acetylene tanks and two oxygen containers, radio reports said.

The suspects, who are both from Sagay City, Negros Occidental, told the police they were hired by a certain Dr. Yap and his son to work on the ship for a pay of P180 a day.

The M/V Murphy was held by the BOC at the Bacolod Realty Corp. port after suspected smuggled rice was found on it on Dec. 16, 2001, Provido said.

Provido said the suspects and their companions may have been working on the ship for some time before they were discovered by the BOC.*PP

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Wanted person arrested

The Talisay City police station in Negros Occidental arrested a person wanted for frustrated murder in Brgy. Cabatangan, Talisay City,  recently, a press release from the city police said.

Vicente Gonzales, 47, married, of Magsaysay Street, Gonzaga Subdivision, Bacolod City, was arrested by a team led by Supt Thomas Joseph Martir, city police chief.

Martir’s team served a warrant of arrest for frustrated murder issued by Judge Ramon Delariarte of the Regional Trial Court Branch 49 in Bacolod dated November 30, 2006 to the suspect, in coordination with PO1 Ferserdo Villaflor of the Warrant and Subpoena section and COMPAC assistant commander SPO1 Jose Romel Samson, the press release said.

Gonzales was detained at the Talisay City Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. The court fixed bail at P200,000 for his temporary liberty, the press release added.*

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