Taxi driver fights robber,
suffers injury, police told

A taxi driver suffered an injury on his right elbow when he fought off a robber in Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod City. at about 2 a.m. yesterday.

Case investigator Police Officer 2 Ronald Villeran identified the taxi driver as Jose Bajador, 56, of Purok Kamunsil in Brgy. Bata, Bacolod, who is employed by Faith Taxi.

Bajador said the suspect took out a buckle knife and declared a hold-up when they reached the area of Yakal Street, but the robber failed to get anything from him, because he fought back.

He described the suspect to be of medium build, white in complexion, was wearing a khaki short pants and white bull cap, and about 5 feet and 5 inches tall.

Villeran said they are still working on the identity of the suspect who fled to Hilado Street.*APN

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3 persons stabbed,
hospitalized

Two persons, one of them a minor, were hospitalized after a group of young men ganged up on them and stabbed them, and fled, in Silay City.

Franklin Mansaners, 19, and his 16-year-old neighbor, whose name the police withheld, were walking at Bangga Cubay in Brgy. Guinhalaran, in Silay at about 2:55 a.m. Sunday when they were attacked.

The teenagers, who both sustained stab wounds on their backs, were rushed to an undisclosed hospital.

The Silay City police is still working on the motive for the stabbing.

In Don Salvador Benedicto, meanwhile, a man was stabbed by his neighbor for a still unknown reason at about 2 a.m. Saturday.

Police identified the victim as Lito Trajes, 34, of Brgy. Pandanon, Don Salvador Benedicto.

Trajes sustained stab wounds on his chest and abdomen and was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City.

The suspect, identified as Edgar Batangas, 43, was arrested by the police and is now detained at the lock-up cell of the Don Salvador Benedicto police station.*APN

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‘No incidents
during BacoLaodiat’

No untoward incidents were reported during the three-day BacoLaodiat Festival at Lacson Street, Bacolod, city police director Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz said yesterday.

De la Paz said only alarm and scandal due to too much alcohol intake topped the list of cases during the festival.

He attributed the peaceful celebration to the intensified anti-criminality and police visibility operations at the festival site.

The use of temporary truck ban was also implemented at the Circumferential Road in front of the Bacolod Government Center yesterday for the fireworks display, De la Paz said.

Securing the festival site were 90 field training policemen and 30 members of the Regional Public Safety Management Battalion.

Traffic at Lacson Street is also expected to normalize today, the police said.*APN

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