2 anti-drugs
cops relieved

Two operatives of the City Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group were relieved by Chief Supt. Cipriano Querol, Western Visayas police director, and temporarily assigned to the Police Regional Special Operations Group, effective Tuesday.

CAIDSTOG head, Supt. Santiago Rapiz, identified those relieved as Police Officer 3 Claro Gordoncillo and PO2 Rey Villanueva, who will be assigned to the RSOG until October 17.

“We don't know the reason for their reliefs, but since there is an order from the Regional Police Office, they have to comply”, Rapiz said, adding that CAIDSTOG will get additional personnel as the order of Querol left a vacuum in the group.

Senior Insp. Joemarie Occeño was also relieved as CAIDSTOG head last month for unknown reasons, and was assigned to the Antique Police Provincial Office.*APN

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Food factory worker
faces slay charges

Homicide charges were filed at the Bacolod City Prosecutor's Office, against a food factory worker, who allegedly stabbed dead his drinking buddy, in Brgy. Tangub, Bacolod City Saturday.

Senior Insp. Jerick Filosofo, Station 8 chief, said the charges were filed against Eugene Lucero, 28, of Brgy. Paraiso in Sagay City, Negros Occidental, who is still confined at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, for injuries sustained when bystanders mauled him, for stabbing Remo Jandoquile.

Jandoquile, 24, of Purok San Roque in Tangub, succumbed to multiple stab wounds while being treated at the CLMMRH Sunday.

Investigation conducted by Police Officer 2 Noel Vergara showed that Jandoquile and Lucero were having drinks in a “sari-sari” store in Brgy. Tangub, when an argument ensued between them.

Witnesses said Jandoquile left to end the argument, but Lucero followed and repeatedly stabbed him, Vergara added.

Meanwhile, a resident of Brgy. Handumanan, in Bacolod City, was rushed to the Bacolod Adventist Hospital, after he was stabbed by his neighbor over a misunderstanding at about 4:30 a.m. yesterday.

Station 10 chief, Senior Insp. Ruel Culanag, identified the victim as Gerald Layaon, 22, of Purok Santo Domingo, who sustained stab wounds on his hands and left ear.

Suspect Michael Ordinario, “alias Jun-Jun”, fled after the incident but left behind the 10-inch long bladed weapon he reportedly used in the crime, police records showed.*APN

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Indian national robbed

An Indian national sought police help yesterday, claiming she was held-up in Brgy. Cabug, Bacolod City.

Keranpal Kaur, 29, of Capitol Hills Subdivision in Brgy. Estefania, Bacolod, told the police she was about to board her motorcycle where her driver was waiting, when two men approached her.

Kaur claimed one of the suspects threatened her with a .38 caliber revolver, declared a hold-up and took her P3,500 in cash. The suspects also mauled her driver, Rene Juanillo, 45, of Puentevella Subdivision in Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod, and used her red Honda motorcycle as get-away vehicle, she said.

The motorcycle was later recovered in Purok Villa Lourdes, Brgy. Pahanocoy, Senior Police Officer 1 Ariel Sevilla, case investigator, told the DAILY STAR.

Kaur said one suspect was wearing a hood, and the other was clad in a white sweater and T-shirt, and was about 5 feet and 6 inches to 7 inches tall.

Meanwhile, Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz, Bacolod police director, gave Station 4 commander, Supt. Leonardo Borromeo, an ultimatum on the arrest of robbers victimizing residents in Brgy. Villamonte.

Several residents wrote Brgy. Captain Drebie Las Piñas recently about their concerns regarding successive robbery incidents in Brgy. Villamonte.

De la Paz, however, said they have been intensifying police visibility in the barangay to curb street crimes, like hold-up. In fact, a notorious robber was arrested in the area last week, and is now detained at the lock-up cell of Police Station 4, he added.*APN

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