15 commercial sex workers
arrested at Bacolod plaza

Fifteen commercial sex workers, aged 18 to 20 years old, were apprehended by Station 1 policemen at the Bacolod City public plaza, at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Chief Insp. Adonis Rosales, Station 1 commander, said the women, whose names he withheld, are all from Bacolod and were released yesterday as they can no longer be charged for vagrancy.

He said they advised the women to undergo examination at the City Health Office to determine if they have sexually-transmitted diseases.

He added that aside from the fact that some of the CSWs indeed have STDs, others are subjects of the complaint from their customers for allegedly stealing their personal belongings.

Rosales said they are intensifying the campaign, not only against CSWs, but also pimps and callboys, on orders of Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz, director of the Bacolod City Police Office.

Last month, De la Paz organized “Task Force Magdalena” to put an end to the rampant exploitation of women and minors, saying that this has to begin with the pimps and callboys, who make prostitution their business.

The police have been arresting pimps and callboys, but no case have been filed against them yet. The decision to charge pimps and callboys in court was made because they have become habitual law violators, De la Paz said.*APN

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4 wanted men apprehended

Four men wanted for various offenses were arrested in Barangays 12, Granada and Taculing, all in Bacolod City, in the past three days, police records show.

Rodito Rivera, “alias Aming”, 20, of Brgy. 12, was nabbed at about 6:30 a.m. yesterday at the reclamation area, on the strength of arrest warrants for frustrated robbery and frustrated homicide issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Ray Alan Drilon.

Drilon set Rivera’s bail at P1,000 for the attempted robbery charge, and P24,000 for the frustrated homicide case.

Rivera and his companion Rogen Antipura, then 16 years old, were tagged as suspects in the attempted robbery and stabbing of Natalia Realista at her house in Purok Calong-Calong, Zone 1, Brgy. Singcang-Airport, Bacolod, on August 27, 2008, police records show.

Meanwhile, Dennis Ponce, 38, was nabbed at about 10:15 a.m. Wednesday at his residence in Purok Bayanihan, Brgy. Taculing, by virtue of an arrest warrant for homicide issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Eliseo Geolingo.

Station 5 chief, Senior Insp. Niel Exaltado, also reported the arrest of Diego Laurilla, 44, at his house in Hacienda Balabag, Brgy. Granada, Bacolod, at about 7 a.m. Tuesday.

Laurilla has an arrest warrant for reckless imprudence resulting in damage to properties and serious physical injuries, issued by Municipal Trial Courts in Cities Judge Rolando Ramirez. Police records did not specify his bail.

On the same day, members of the Warrant and Subpoena Section of the Bacolod City Police Office also apprehended Randy Ladrazo, 41, at his house in Capitol Village, Brgy. Granada, at about 11:30 a.m. on the strength of an arrest warrant for arson, issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Gregorio Ybanez, who set his bail at P24,000.*APN

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