The alleged failure of the police to solve the series of ransacking of game fowl farms in Murcia, including his, that he  claimed was entered six times by an armed group, since June last year, was criticized by former Mayor Esteban Coscolluela.

In an open letter to Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr., Coscolluela said the armed men, who entered his game fowl farm on Dec. 28 in Hacienda Puyas, Brgy, Blumentritt, Murcia, shot his breeding partner, Bobsy Silverio, when he tried to resist another robbery-in-band attempt.

He said that a week before the incident, Silverio and the caretaker were also held at gunpoint by the armed suspects, who took 19 fighting cocks, on top of 13 gamecocks that the armed men also took from his cock farm in June 23 last year.

Senior Supt. Allan Guisihan, provincial police director of Negros Occidental, ordered the Murcia police to investigate the reports of ransacking of gamefowl farms in the town.

Coscolluela also said the Dec. 21 incident was no longer a simple robbery-in-band, but was already a threat to life. He said armed men also entered the gamefowl farms of Bingbong Coscolluela, Tuting Amarra, Arturo Parreno and other backyard breeders in Brgy. Blumentritt, all in Murcia.

Coscolluela claimed that the Murcia police has not made any arrest of suspects and that gamefowl farm owners have lost more than 100 fighting cocks so far.*GPB

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