SIPALAY SHOOTING
Guard facing child abuse,
illegal detention raps, too

A company guard of the G Holdings Inc. assigned at the compound of Maricalum Mining Co. in Brgy. San Jose, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental, who allegedly shot dead an 18-year-old teenager on June 30, is not only facing murder charges in court, but also  illegal detention and child abuse cases.

Chief Insp. Arnel Arpon, Sipalay police chief, said murder charges were filed against Nazario Chavez, a company guard of GHI, for the death of Richard Yangoren, 18, Wednesday.

Arpon said additional charges of illegal detention and violation of Republic Act 7610, or the Child Abuse Act, were also filed against Chavez allegedly for locking up two minors who were the companions of Yangoren, inside a container van.

He added that the complainants are parents of the two detained minors and the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

Police records show that similar incidents took place in previous years at the MMC compound.

Yangoren and the two minors were searching for scrap iron, when the incident took place, initial police investigations showed.

Chavez, who claimed to have fired a warning shot, immediately surrendered to the Sipalay City Police Station after the incident on June 30.

However, the shotgun of Chavez, which he allegedly used in the commission of the crime, was later endorsed to the Sipalay police, Arpon said.

Chavez is now  in jail.*GPB

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Assignment of Silay City
PNP deputy chief ‘nullified’

Senior Inspector Rico Santotome was on “floating status” again after his assignment as deputy police chief of Silay City was nullified barely 30 minutes after he reported for duty yesterday.

Police records show that Santotome, then chief of the Negros Occidental police Special Operations Group, raided the movie theater owned by Councilor Warlito Go in Silay City for showing pornographic films in January.

Santotome was designated  deputy police chief of Silay effective July 2, as a result of the reshuffling of several junior police officers by Senior Supt. Rosendo Franco, provincial police director.

Santotome, however, said on reporting for duty at the Silay police, he was informed that his new assignment was nullified for unknown reasons.

Santotome has reportedly been marked by some “influential people” for his active involvement in the campaign against drugs, pornography, and illegal gambling in Negros Occidental.

Santotone is also facing charges before the Office of the Visayas Ombudsman, in connection with the conduct of an alleged anti-illegal gambling raid in Cadiz City, police records show.*GPB

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