Policemen apprehend
fisherman for stabbing

A fisherman was apprehended in a follow-up operation for allegedly stabbing and injuring a man in Brgy. Sum-ag, Bacolod City, at about 1 a.m. Saturday.

Police identified the one arrested as Ramel Lachica, “alias Dondon”, 27, of Purok Mabinuligon Dos, Brgy. Sum-ag.

The victim, Ivan Puertas, 27, of Purok Providence in Brgy. Sum-ag, sustained stab wounds on his arm and back and was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Hospital, where he is now confined.

Investigation conducted by Police Officer 3 Ariel Sevilla showed that Puertas was on his way home when he saw Lachica and his companions, mauling his cousin Stephen Gonzales, 20, beside the street.

Sevilla said Lachica and his companions fled when they noticed Puertas approaching. Puertas chased them and caught up with Lachica at the Sum-ag bridge, but he fought back and stabbed Puertas, Sevilla said.

Puertas is now detained at the lock-up cell of Police Station 9 while charges are being readied against him.*APN

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VS DRUG USERS
‘No need to seal off
public cemetery’

City Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group team leader, Senior Insp. Joemarie Occeño, yesterday said there is no more need to seal off the Bacolod City Public Cemetery from illegal drug users.

Occeño said that since it was exposed through the media that some mausoleums at the cemetery are being used as drug dens, drug addicts will no longer go there.

The City Legal Office enforcement team, headed by Ceasar Beloria, was to serve notice of ejectment to illegal settlers at the cemetery on Tuesday, when they found several empty plastic sachets, tooters, and other illegal drug paraphernalia scattered in some mausoleums.

Occeño admitted they were not aware that drug addicts were using some mausoleums at the cemetery as drug dens, and learned about it only when it came out in the news.

He, however, said they have identified the supplier of illegal drugs near the public cemetery and will arrest him soon.

Former Station 4 commander, Chief Insp. Adonis Rosales, whose station is located beside the cemetery, said policemen were deployed to the area before, but they did not see drug addicts having pot sessions at the cemetery.

City Police Director, Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz, ordered newly installed Station 4 commander, Chief Insp. Ulysses Ortiz and Occeño to conduct operations at the public cemetery to prevent drug addicts from using the area for their pot sessions.*APN

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Fees now required for
detention certificate

An ordinance requiring fees for the issuance of certificates of detention for inmates at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Bacolod City, was passed by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod on first reading Wednesday.

Authored by Councilor El Cid Familiaran, the ordinance will govern the issuance of certificate of detention for inmates confined at the BJMP, within the jurisdiction of Bacolod City.

Previous or present inmates, and their parents, siblings or relatives, including concerned persons may be issued such certificate upon payment of fees to the City Treasurer’s Office, it said. However, indigent inmates declared by the court or duly certified to by the barangay captain concerned will be exempted from such fees, it added.

The ordinance said inmates will be required to pay fees of P100 at the City Treasurer’s Office for issuance of a certificate of detention by the BJMP.

For proper recording and disbursing of funds under this ordinance, a trust fund will be created, it said.

The ordinance said 40 percent of the proceeds will be retained by the city, which will be used to finance or augment the budget for jail and management operations and subsistence of detainees and inmates.

It said 50 percent of the proceeds will be remitted to the BJMP, which will be used for support food assistance for inmates, sanitation of jail/detention cell, and for positive rehabilitation of inmates, while the remaining10 percent will be set aside for the barangay, where the BJMP is located, and will be used to maintain barangay peace and order, and for anti-drug campaign.*CGS

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