The police filed multiple charges yesterday against Jose Tingson and Analyn Ancheta who allegedly used fake Social Security Systems checks in paying a business establishment in Bacolod City Wednesday.

Cases for swindling, estafa, and violation of Article 168 of the Revised Penal Code or the illegal possession and use of false treasury or bank notes and other instruments of credit, were lodged against Tingson and Ancheta at the City Prosecutor’s Office yesterday, Police Station 6 commander, Chief Inspector Ulysses Ortiz, said.

Tingson, who had earlier identified himself as “Roy Aquino”, was also charged for using a fictitious name, Ortiz added.

Tingson, a former kagawad of Brgy. 11, Bacolod, was nabbed by the group of Ortiz Wednesday after he allegedly bought a 13-plate car battery worth P2,800 from SGB Tire Supply in Bacolod, using an SSS check, which the owner later discovered to be forged.

When Tingson tried to buy again from the same commercial outfit, he was arrested in an entrapment operation at about 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Ancheta was apprehended later at her house where the car battery and the cash given by the tire store as change were also recovered.

Tingson told the DAILY STAR yesterday that he was tempted to help his friends use fake checks, including ones under the name of the Development Bank of the Philippines, to support himself after he resigned from his work at a money lending company in Bacolod.

Ancheta, a meat vendor, claimed that she and Tingson are friends, but she is not aware of his illegal activities.

She said Tingson had requested that the vehicle battery and the cash be left with her.

Ancheta, also admitted, however, that she was once detained at Police Station 6 for a swindling complaint but that she was just implicated in the case by her friends.*PP

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