Murder raps filed vs. cop

Murder and frustrated murder charges were filed at the Bacolod City Prosecutor’s Office yesterday against a policeman for the fatal shooting of a banker and the wounding of his son in Brgy. Estefania.

The charges were filed against Police Officer 2 Mauro Taleon of Brgy. Dancalan, Ilog town, in Negros Occidental and assigned as member of the Provincial Police Public Safety Company, Supt. Santiago Rapiz, chief of the Bacolod City Police Office said.

Evidence presented against Taleon were the affidavits of the witnesses, including those of the relatives of victim Jonel Ealdama, 49, of Camingawan in Brgy. Estefania; the autopsy report and photographs of the crime scene, Rapiz said.

He added that the medical certificate of Ealdama’s son Karl, 16, was also presented as evidence.

Station 4 commander, Chief Insp. Adonis Rosales, said Taleon tested negative for gun powder nitrates in a paraffin test done on him. But Rosales said this is non-conclusive and will not affect the charges they filed.

Results of the cotton swabbing on the firearms of Police Officer 2 Eric Moncal and Police Officer 1 Gary Sarap, the companions of Taleon, meanwhile, yielded positive for gun powder nitrates but this does not mean they have participation in the crime, Rosales said.

Rapiz, meanwhile, said that the younger Ealdama is still confined at the Bacolod Doctor’s Hospital and will undergo an operation to remove the bullet from his body.

Investigation showed that Jonel and his son were talking to Joel, his younger brother, outside the 4Ps Convenience Store near the Petron gasoline station a few meters from the NOPPO headquarters when Taleon reportedly came out of the establishment and told them to keep quiet.

A verbal argument allegedly occurred between Jonel Ealdama and Taleon that led to the fatal shooting.*APN

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4 nabbed for
drugs, homicide

Four persons, including a suspect in a homicide case, were arrested Monday and Tuesday in San Enrique towns and the cities of Sagay and Silay, in Negros Occidental, for alleged illegal possession of drugs and illegal gambling, police records showed yesterday.

Senior Insp. Hector Balbon yesterday said that Jerry Suanico, 60, was arrested during a raid Monday at his gamefowl farm in Brgy. Tibsoc, San Enrique, by virtue of a search warrant issued by Bago City Judge Frances Guanzon.

Balbon, San Enrique police chief, said the raid that was witnessed by Brgy. Capt. Jose Quitco and Kagawad Jose Prudente, yielded four sachets of suspected shabu, two plastic sachets containing residue of suspected shabu, a .38 caliber revolver with 11 rounds of ammunition, P5,997 in cash believed to be proceeds from the sale of prohibited drugs, and P500 in marked money.

Suanico is now detained at the San Enrique police station jail pending the filing of charges against him in court.

Meanwhile, two suspected illegal gambling solicitors were also arrested Monday by police in barangays Plaridel and Bulanon, in Sagay City.

Nabbed were Paul John Narciso, 18, and Letecia Lape,36.

Chief Inspector Gabriel Gutierrez, Sagay police chief, said the arrest of Narciso yielded assorted illegal gambling paraphernalia and P50 in alleged cash bets; while P235 in cash and illegal gambling paraphernalia were also seized from Lape.

Meanwhile, a suspect in a homicide case identified as Aladin Moises,37, was also apprehended by the police in Brgy. Granada, Bacolod City, by virtue of an arrest warrant issued by Silay Regional Trial Court Judge Felipe Banzon.

Supt. Rosauro Francisco, Silay police chief, said Moises, a resident of Brgy. Guinhalaran, Silay City, was allowed to post bail of P40,000 of his provisional liberty. *GPB

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Policemen recover
loose guns, grenade

Police recovered four alleged loose guns and a grenade in the cities of Talisay, Bacolod and La Carlota and in Cuayan town, Negros Occidental early this week.

Cauayan town policemen arrested Raul Ricabordaalias “Frances”, 21, of Sitio Mainit in Brgy. Poblacion at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday and seized from him a .357 caliber revolver with defaced serial numbers and four live ammunition.

An improvised long firearm made of PVC tube pipe or “boga-boga” was also recovered by barangay tanods in Sitio Caingilan, Brgy. La Granja in La Carlota City at about 1 p.m. Monday during a benefit dance at the place and endorsed it to Captain Nanette Escarsa, who turned it over to the police.

Senior Police Officer 1 Renzie Lambayong and Police Officer 1 Richard Villan. Meanwhile, arrested Rene Juaniza, 26, of Brgy. Dos Hermanas in Talisay City at about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday.

A caliber .357 revolver an apple grenade were seized from Juaniza police records showed.

In Bacolod City, Police Officers 1 Jerico Candiasan and Randy Plantig arrested an unemployed man at about 1:45 a.m. Tuesday in front of the Kaisei Restaurant at 10th-Lacson Street for alleged illegal gun possession.

Nabbed was Ryan Villacin, 26, of Purok Riverside in Brgy. Mansilingan.

Policemen seized a pin gun with live ammunition for .38 caliber revolver from Villacin when he was arrested.

A security gurad of Kaisei Restaurant complained that Villacin and companions Ramil Crispo, 31, of Purok Cagaycay in Brgy. 2, Bacolod and Adrian Suante, 28, of Brgy. Pandanon Silos in Murcia town Negros Occidental, were sleeping in front of the establishment.

Suante and Crispo were also detained at the lock-up cell ofPolice Station 2 and will be charged for vagrancy, the police said.*APN

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