2nd most wanted man in
Iloilo falls in Bacolod

A murder suspect tagged as the second most-wanted of Iloilo City was arrested by joint operatives of the Regional Intelligence Unit of Police Regional office 6, Bacolod City Intelligence and Investigation Branch and of Police Station 2, at Robinson’s mall Bacolod at about 4 p.m. yesterday.

Arrested was Ian Parreño, 26 of Brgy. Bakhaw in Manduriao District, Iloilo City and now a resident of Purok Tilapia, Brgy. 3, who is now detained at Police Station 2.

The arrest was made by Police Officers 3 Anthony Marijana and Rodney Ruiz and was supervised by Supt. Ronald Gepana of RIU and Station 2 chief Insp. Jeffrey Attunaga.

Marijana said they arrested Parreño on the strength of an arrest warrant issued by Iloilo City 6th Judicial Region of Manduriao Judge Rene Mortillo, who denied his bail.

Marijana disclosed that Parreño and his father, Cesar Parreño, alias “Kabayo” have been tagged in the killing of an alleged Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency asset in Iloilo City last year.

The elder Parreño had already been arrested by RIU operatives late last year, police records showed.

Ian Parreño, who now works as a helper in a cock farm in Bacolod, denied involvement in the killing of the alleged PDEA asset and said that it was his father who did it.

Meanwhile, investigators of Police Station 7 are still clueless as to the identities of the suspects in the brutal killing of call center agent John Silvano, 24, of Hervias 2, Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod, whose body was found in a creek at Brgy. Vista Alegre, this city.

Station 7 police chief, Insp. Emmanuel Misajon admitted that they do not have any lead or witnesses yet, who could shed light on the case.

Misajon said they will request to the call center where Silvano worked to allow them to inquire from his officemates if they have any idea where the victim had gone before his body was fished out from the creek with at least 20 stab wounds.*APN

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Cops nab ‘marijuana peddler’

Policemen seized 15 grams of suspected dried marijuana leaves from a peddler during a buy-bust operation Monday in Talisay City, Negros Occidental.

The arrest of Mark Fernandez yielded an estimated 15 grams of marijuana and two marijuana cigarets, Chief Insp. Rico Santotome, chief of the Negros Occidental anti-narcotics group, said.

Fernandez, of Brgy. Zone 4-A in Talisay City, is now detained at the police jail, pending the filing of charges against him for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Meanwhile, one of the five armed suspects who had ransacked the house of Geraldine Peroy at Hda. Dresden, Brgy. Inolingan, Moises Padilla, was arrested by the police Sunday.

Senior Insp. Gil Flores, Moises Padilla police chief, identified the arrested suspect as Tomas Aungon, 54, but his four companions had escaped.

Flores said the five suspects took P150,000 in cash, two cellular phones and a camera from the residence of Peroy, before Aungon was arrested.

However, the Moises Padilla policemen failed to recover the loot.*GPB

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Snatchers hit 3 women

Three women were victimized by snatchers who took their personal belongings in Bacolod City yesterday.

April Ten, 23, of Nueva Street, Brgy. 11, said that when the passenger jeepney plying the Mandalagan-Libertad route that she was riding reached 27th Street, her fellow passenger suddenly snatched her bag, alighted from the jeepney and fled.

Ten said her bag contained her cellular phone valued at P5,000, wallet with P2,000 in cash, identification and ATM cards.

Hayden Jimenez, 47, of Barangay Bata also said that while she was on board a jeepney with Sta. Fe-Central Market route at about noon yesterday, her fellow passenger ordered the jeep to stop, took her bag, alighted and fled.

Jimenez said her bag contained a cellphone valued at P2,000, wallet with P2,000, identification cards and other documents.

Marion Enuslay, 45, of Brgy. 9, Isabela town, Negros Occidental also lost her bag to a female snatcher while she was at a fastfood restaurant at Luzuriaga Street, Bacolod at about noon yesterday.

Enuslay said she was with her daughter Aida Mari, 19, and they were buying a meal at Jollibee Luzuriaga branch, when a woman suddenly snatched her bag which contained her wallet with identification cards, two cellular phones valued at P18,000 and a cellular phone case valued at P7,000.

The snatching cases are being investigated by Police Stations 1, 2 and 4.*APN

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