4 detained for store
burglary in Bacolod

Four people have been detained for their alleged participation in a store burglary that involved more than P100,000 in Bacolod City Friday, the police said.

Paul Salvacion, 26, was arrested by members of the Bacolod City Police Office Anti-Robbery Task Group and Police Station 1 Saturday while Philip Bacan, 21, Markie Matulac, and a 17-year-old, surrendered to Brgy. 9 tanods Sunday, police records show.

The four were allegedly involved in the break-in at the Farmers Machinery Center owned by Procopio Tanalgo at Lacson Street , Brgy. 9, in Bacolod Thursday, Police Station 1 commander, Chief Inspector Noel Manaay, said.

The shop lost about P140,601 in farm equipment, that included a P35,00 stainless propeller shaft, police records show.

The suspects, who admitted to stealing the items, were led by Salvacion who lives near the business establishment, Manaay said.

Manaay said the suspects, whom, he called amateur “scrap boys”, were pinpointed by a junkshop owner at Brgy. 16, in Bacolod to whom they tried to sell the stolen equipment.

Most of the items were recovered after the arrest of the suspects, police records show.

Last week, three people were also arrested for alleged involvement in burglaries at a veterinary shop and an appliance center in Bacolod .

Case investigator, PO2 Celito Dullan, said the spate of burglaries in the city shows how poor many people are.

BCPO director, Senior Supt. Ronilo Quebrar, said he organized the Anti-Robbery Task Group, led by Supt. Leo Erwin Agpangan and Senior Inspector Luisito Acebuche, in response to the series of burglaries and hold-up incidents in the city.

Manaay, meanwhile, said they will file the robbery charges against Salvacion, Bacan, and Matulac.

The minor will be endorsed to the Social Development Center , he added.*PP

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Bystanders kill ‘Mr. X'

An unidentified man was mobbed and killed by bystanders when he tried to escape from the police in Bacolod City Saturday, the police said.

The man, identified up to press time yesterday only as Mr. X, was declared dead on arrival at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital with a stab wound on his stomach, police records show.

Police Station 1 commander, Chief Inspector Noel Manaay, said the man was apparently stabbed by unidentified bystanders who attacked him when he fell from the roof of a house in Brgy. 12, Bacolod , at about 1 a.m. Saturday.

The man was described as about 5'4” in height, had a fair complexion, and was between 25 and 30 years old. He climbed up the house of Rodolfo Gomez and tried to stab a police officer before he stepped on a thin part of the roof and fell.

He had earlier evaded a police team who chased the jeepney he rode in after robbing a woman in Brgy. Mandalagan.

Manaay called on families who may have missing relatives to visit the CLMMRH as the hospital will bury the body after four days if no one claims it.*PP

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Man nabbed for drugs

The Iloilo City Mobile Group led by Senior Insp. Kim Legada arrested a drug suspect in a buy-bust operation about 2:45 a.m. Monday, a press release from the Iloilo City Police Office said.

Legada, group commander and chief of the Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force, collared the suspect identified only as Serojano, of South Fundidor , Molo, and temporarily residing at Zone 3 in Brgy. Tanza Esperanza, Iloilo .

Recovered from him were a sachet of suspected shabu, a plastic canister with nine rolled aluminum foils and P900, including P300 in marked money.

Serojano is now detained at the Iloilo police station and will be charged with violating Republic Act 9164, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, the press release added.*

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