Cop disarmed, restricted
for kicking 2-year-old boy

A policeman who allegedly kicked the 2-year-old son of a Maranao trader, has been disarmed and restricted at the Don Salvador Benedicto Police Station, while the complaint hurled against him is being investigated.

Senior Supt. Rosendo Franco, police provincial director, yesterday reiterated his call for the parents of the minor to file a complaint against PO1 Alberto Estacion III.

Estacion allegedly kicked the son of Samiya Sanguila on April 1 at the public plaza of La Castellana, without provocation, causing him to lose consciousness.

Initial police investigations show that Estacion, of Brgy. 5, Moises Padilla, was strolling at the town public plaza, and had confronted Samiya and his two brothers, both Maranao traders.

The La Castellana police quoted Estacion as saying that he was mad at Muslims who allegedly killed his brother.

Franco, meanwhile, ordered Supt. William Señoron to transfer PO1 Brenold Jarina from the Sagay City Police Station to Camp Alfredo Montelibano Sr. in Bacolod City, while deliberation on the administrative charges filed against him is going on.

Jarina who tested positive for drug use and charged with violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, is out of jail after posting bail of P30,000, police records show.

Franco had earlier recommended the dismissal of Jarina from the police service.*GPB

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Man in shooting
seeks to clear name

A construction worker arrested for alleged involvement in the fatal shooting of a man in Bacolod City Wednesday night, yesterday appealed to be sent to jail where his cousin is, so he could clear his name.

Melvin Lava, 37, of Purok Kabuhi, Brgy. 10, Bacolod, pleaded to police officers that he be transferred to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Brgy. Handumanan, Bacolod, so he could talk to his cousin, Ramon Nelson Anoche, who, he said, was the real suspect in the case against him.

Lava, a construction worker at Fortune Towne, Brgy. Estefania, Bacolod, was nabbed by Police Station 2 members led by Senior Inspector Luisito Acebuche, on the strength of a warrant of arrest for murder while he and his family were having dinner outside their house at about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, police reports said.

No bail was recommended by Regional Trial Court Branch 54 Judge Demosthenes Magallanes for Lava’s temporary liberty, police records show.

Acebuche said that they have been monitoring Lava for some time before he was apprehended.

Lava said it was Anoche who shot the unidentified man in Brgy. 10 in April last year and that he and his fellow tanod just responded to the incident.

Anoche, 20, was remitted to the BJMP in Handumanan for allegedly killing Anthony Esteban, 44, at the Bacolod Reclamation Area in Brgy. 10, in July 15 last year.

Lava said he hopes Anoche would admit the crime so he could go back to his wife and two children who are depending on his P120 a day income as a foreman helper.

He said he is worried about his 4-year-old daughter who has not spoken since his arrest.

His daughter may have been traumatized because the officers suddenly enclosed them during his arrest, Lava said.*PP

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Police to establish
identity of burglars

The police said yesterday they are still trying to establish the identity of the persons who burglarized two houses and took assorted appliances in Bacolod City yesterday and Wednesday.

Roberto Doctolero, 50, of San Mateo Village, Brgy. Banago, Bacolod, told Police Station 3 investigators that he discovered that unidentified persons had broken into his residence at about 7:30 a.m. yesterday.

The thieves destroyed the padlock of the steel grills of the house near a sliding door, and took two rice cookers, a coffee maker, three pairs of shoes, a DVD player, four bags, and a wallet with an undetermined amount of cash, police records show.

Unidentified persons also broke into the home of Elain Lagumbay, 30, at Sta. Maria Street, Eroreco Subdivision, Brgy. Mandalagan, Bacolod, at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, police reports said.

Lagumbay said the suspects stole a DVD and a VCD player and assorted shoes after destroying their back door.

Case investigator PO1 Donnie Garcia said they suspect that the robbers will sell the items to a barangay in Bacolod, which he refused to name, where, he said, stolen goods are usually disposed of.*PP

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