NOPPO intensifies hunt
for highway robbers

Senior Supt. Rosendo Franco yesterday ordered intelligence operatives of the Negros Occidental police and local police units, to exert more efforts to arrest the suspects involved in two highway robbery incidents in Isabela and Cauayan towns, recently.

The latest victims were employees of Teng Hwa Trading who were robbed at gunpoint Monday in Brgy. Linawon, Cauayan.

Police investigations show that the four suspects, armed with hand guns, divested saleswoman Rodelia Fernandez, driver Jonjie Diosana and helper Gener Aliponga of P500 in cash, P12,000 in checks, two cellphones and assorted personal belongings.

The incident took place four days after six armed men also flagged down and held up a delivery van in Brgy. Tinongan, Isabela, whose salesman and driver were divested of P40,000 in cash and six packs of cigarets.

Franco said they have already identified some of the suspects in these incidents. “It is only a matter of time before they are arrested”, he added.

The group of highway robbers reportedly have four to six members, and armed with hand guns and an automatic assault rifle, police investigations also showed.

Franco also advised police stations in southern Negros and troopers of the two provincial mobile group units to be on the look-out for the suspects, who may enter their areas.*GPB

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Porter facing
S robbery charges

A suspect in an appliance store burglary in Bacolod City recently was charged with robbery yesterday, the police said.

Charged at the City Prosecutor's Office yesterday was Josua Jimenea, 26, of Purok Boulevard , Brgy. 14, in the city, three days after he was arrested for allegedly trying to sell a VCD player stolen by his companions, Police Station 1 commander, Chief Inspector Noel Manaay, said.

Jimenea was looking for a buyer for the item when he was arrested by Police Station 1 officers led by Manaay in Purok Boulevard , at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, police records show.

The equipment was part of the estimated P100,410 loot Jimenea's two companions, one of whom was only identified as “Dodoy”, took from NIG Marketing owned by Nestor Gabalda at Burgos-Lacson streets, in Bacolod , Saturday, police said.

Meanwhile, Police Station 2 investigator, SPO1 Vicente Canuday, said they are now preparing charges against the five high school students allegedly involved in a robbery in Bacolod City Saturday.

Canuday said they have recovered most of the items the five teenaged boys took from three people, who are also minors, including five cellphones and assorted clothes.

The suspects, who are from barangays Banago, Alijis, and 38, allegedly held up Anthony James Buelba, 20, Carlo Odronia, 16, Noemi Azucena, 16, and Genevie Cabanglan, 16, at gunpoint, while they were sitting near AMA College along San Agustin Street, in the city, police records show.

One of the suspects, who was released to his parents after being detained at Police Station 2, admitted that his classmates had indeed robbed the complainants but added he just stayed in their car during the incident.*PP

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Woman to press rape-try
raps against mall guard

The 24-year-old woman, who was injured when she resisted an alleged sexual-molestation attempt by a mall security guard in Bacolod City Monday, will file charges against him, the police said yesterday.

The complainant, whose name is being withheld, will charge Darwin Grijaldo for assaulting her at a vacant building in Purok Mars, Brgy. 38, at about 8 p.m. Monday, PO2 Anabeth Abalayan of the Bacolod City Police Office Women and Children's Concerns Desk, said.

Grijaldo of San Enrique town, Negros Occidental, reportedly shoved the woman into a vacant building in Purok Mars at knifepoint.

The woman said she had asked the help of Grijaldo to look for a boarding house, and he told her they were going to a house he had found, before the incident.

She reportedly managed to grapple with the guard for the knife and kicked him on the crotch, before asking for help from bystanders.

Grijaldo is still at large, PO2 Rolito Flores of Police Station 8 said.*PP

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