3 nabbed for soliciting
jai-alai bets in Sagay

Three persons, one of them with a hand gun, who were allegedly soliciting bets for jai-alai, were arrested by the police in Brgy. Baviera, Sagay City, Negros Occidental, Tuesday.

Supt. William Señoron, Sagay police chief, yesterday identified the arrested suspects as Antonio de la Pena, 56; Guillermo Echoga, 54, and a 17-year-old, whose identity is being withheld by the DAILY STAR.

Señoron, who led the arrest of the suspects, said a Smith and Wesson .38 caliber revolver with two live ammunition, was recovered from De la Pena.

Police said the three were caught in the act of soliciting bets for jai-alai at the Brgy. Baviera proper in Sagay City.

Recovered from them were tally sheets with different jai-alai number combinations, tipsters of illegal gambling outfit with a codename “Speed”, assorted gambling paraphernalia, P900 in cash bets, a cellphone and a Honda 125 XRM motorcycle.

Señoron said operations of jai-alai are allegedly financed by a certain Victor Vailoces of Brgy. Bato, in Sagay.

De la Pena, Echoga and their companion who claims to be a minor, are now under the custody of the Sagay City Police Station, pending the filing of charges against them.*GPB

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IN PULUPANDAN
Body of ‘salvage’
victim found

The body of a man with his neck slashed and believed to be a salvage victim, was found yesterday in Brgy. Palaka Norte, Pulupandan, Negros Occidental.

Inspector Joshua Villasis, Pulupandan police chief, yesterday identified the victim as Marvin Nueva, 28, a resident of Sitio Calubihan, Brgy. Patic, Pulupandan.

Initial police investigations showed that Nueva had been seen walking alone towards the old cockpit in the barangay, after 1 a.m. yesterday. His body was found by Edward Silva in the place five hours later.

Villasis said the body was brought to the Baxter Funeral Parlor in Bago City, for an autopsy to determine the cause of his death.

The death of Nueva marred the barangay fiesta of Palaka Norte in Pulupandan that was being celebrated yesterday by its residents.

SPO2 Rey Lastierre is investigating the killing.*GPB

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NOPPO gets 2 vehicles

The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office got two more brand new Toyota Hi-Lux patrol vehicles Tuesday from Camp Crame, in addition to the four patrol cars it acquired two weeks ago.

Senior Supt. Rosendo Franco, police provincial director, yesterday said the vehicles will be issued to the municipal police stations of Moises Padilla and Toboso.

In previous weeks, PNP chief Avelino Razon also gave four brand new Toyota Altis patrol cars, through Franco to the city police stations of Victorias, Talisay, Himamaylan and Sipalay.

Franco said he expects more patrol vehicles from Camp Crame next month, to be distributed to other municipal police stations in the province.

Razon has assured Franco and the local chief executives of Negros Occidental that they will be given priority in the distribution of patrol vehicles.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has approved a P10-billion modernization program for the PNP, to be used to purchase more patrol vehicles, firearms, communication equipment, construction of more police stations, and recruitment of more policemen.*GPB

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Drug courier to
pinpoint shabu users

A suspected drug courier, arrested by the police in a routine visibility patrol in Bacolod City yesterday, said he is willing to pinpoint drug peddlers and users in the city.

Trisikad driver Tyron Bico, 33, of Purok Sampaguita, Brgy. Singcang-Airport, Bacolod, said he will pinpoint sellers of shabu and marijuana after he was nabbed by Police Station 2 members led by Senior Inspector Luisito Acebuche, in Purok Sigay, Brgy. 2, Bacolod, at about 1:35 p.m. yesterday.

A transparent plastic sachet containing suspected shabu was recovered from Bico, police records showed.

Acebuche said he, PO2 Ronelo Molato and PO1 Orlando Caporal, were on foot patrol along the alleys of Purok Sigay when they chanced upon Bico and found the sachet when they frisked him.

Bico said he bought the substance for an alias “Rex” for a commission of P20 to P30.

He added that he has been acting as a courier for drug users and peddlers in Purok Sigay for “bugas-bugas (money to buy rice)” for his wife and two children.

Bico said he knows a number of illegal drugs dealers in Purok Sigay and he is willing to help the police arrest them.

Acebuche, meanwhile, said that although Bico will help them, the only incentive he could get would be a reduction of his sentence if he pleads guilty in court later.

They will file the charges for violation of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 against Bico if the contents of the sachet are proven to be shabu by the Philippine National Police Crime Laboratory, he added.*PP

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