IN SAN CARLOS
Police neutralize
group of robbers

The police claimed to have busted a robbery gang utilizing minors in their illegal activities, with the recent arrest of its alleged leader and two other members in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental.

Supt. Harold Tuzon, San Carlos police chief, yesterday identified the arrested leader of the gang as Warren Resco, but not the two other minors whose identities are being withheld by the DAILY STAR.

Tuzon said the three suspects were caught in the act of ransacking and stripping a two-storey residence owned by British national Bill Scanes in Brgy. 1 Poblacion, in San Carlos, of appliances and valuable items.

He added that Scanes was away on vacation when his residence was ransacked by the suspects.

Tuzon said the ongoing recovery operations on stolen appliances and other valuable items from the house of Scanes have yielded a mini-karaoke, a computer set, a television set, sala and dining sets, window glass, and electric wires.

He, however, said they have not yet recovered the stolen refrigerator and aircon of Scanes.

Police said investigations show that the group of Resco is believed responsible for a string of robbery cases in several subdivisions of San Carlos City.

Tuzon said the two arrested minors who are now under the custody of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, were being used by Resco to conduct surveillance on targeted commercial establishments or residences, in the guise of collecting recyclable garbage.

He added that minors are also being used as guards or look-outs by the group, while the robbery is ongoing.

“This is the dilemma that police has to face in the fight against lawlessness, because minors invoke the protection of RA 9344, or the Juvenile Welfare Act, when they violate laws”, Tuzon said.*GPB

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Minor in stabbing
incident flees SDC

The police yesterday said they will negotiate for the surrender of a teenaged stabbing suspect who had escaped from the Social Development Center in Bacolod City shortly after his arrest Sunday, for attacking a fellow bar patron.

Police Station 2 commander, Senior Inspector Luisito Acebuche, said, they will talk to the father of the minor to turn in his son and face the possible frustrated homicide charges against him.

The 17-year-old, whose name is being withheld by the DAILY STAR, escaped from the rehabilitation facility in Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod at noon Sunday where Acebuche and his members had endorsed him at about 5 a.m. the same day, SDC houseparent Melanie Jison, said.

Children in conflict with the law are endorsed to the SDC for rehabilitation.

The boy, who is from Brgy. 7, Bacolod, allegedly stabbed Raymond Ramos in a riot at 17th Street, Bacolod, after a confrontation between their groups at the People’s Village at 21st Street, Bacolod, at about 10 p.m. Saturday, Acebuche said.

He said, Ramos, 19, of Purok Cereza North, Brgy. 3, Bacolod, positively identified his attacker at the Riverside Medical Center.

The suspect, who was treated at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital for a wound on his face, was arrested at about 1:45 a.m. Sunday while Ramos is still confined at the RMC, Acebuche said.

Although the teenager was already the responsibility of the SDC, Acebuche said, they will help find him again.

Meanwhile, Jison said the minor could have left SDC easily because the compound is an open facility.

Their program director, Socorro Tetangco, will follow up the teenager’s case, she said.

Efforts to contact Tetangco, SDC head, Juan Paolo Sajo and Bacolod Department of Social Services and Development officer-in-charge Sally Abelarde, failed up to press time yesterday.

Acebuche said they are also looking for an alias Cyrus and a certain Herson, who also help attack Ramos.

He said the scuffle between the two groups, who, he said, were believed to be already intoxicated with liquor, based on their investigation, most likely stemmed from an exchange of stares.

Bacolod City Ordinance No. 1251 series of 1979 states that only those 18 years old and above can purchase liquor from business establishments.*PP

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2 rugby ‘users’ nabbed

Two men may face multiple charges for alleged use of rugby and possession of deadly weapons after they were arrested by policemen during the weekend, the police said yesterday.

Jay-R Flores of Brgy. Bato, Sagay City, and Randy Jimenez of Victorias City, both in Negros Occidental may be charged for possession of a gun and a knife and abuse of rugby, Chief Inspector Noel Manaay, Police Station 1 commander, said.

Flores, 21, and Jimenez 29, were nabbed by Police Station 1 members led by Manaay and SPO3 Nerio Regollo, at a vacant lot at the corner of San Sebastian-Locsin streets, Bacolod, at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, police records show.

Recovered from Flores was .38 caliber revolver, while a 15-inch bladed weapon was confiscated from Jimenez, police records show.

Two plastic containers with rugby were also recovered from the two, police reports said.

Manaay said a concerned citizen reported to them that Flores and Jimenez were staying at the deserted property while using the solvent.

He said the two tried to evade arrest by climbing a tree.

The suspects, meanwhile, said they were not doing anything wrong although they admitted to using rugby at that time.

They also denied owning the weapons, claiming they just found them beneath a broken slab of concrete at the vacant lot.*PP

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