Police arrest Russian
using fake credit cards
BY ADRIAN NEMES III

A Russian national was apprehended at about 4 p.m. Saturday by Station 1 policemen after he allegedly duped a cellular phone store twice, using fictitious credit cards.

Police Officer 3 Celito Dullan yesterday identified the suspect as Ooil Ooilov, 24, who is now detained at Police Station 1.

Lina Aguero of PO’s Markeing Digital Araneta Branch, told the police that the Russian bought two cellular phones valued at P29,990 on Thursday using a Banco de Oro credit Card. However, they later learned that the credit card was fake.

Pulupandan Mayor Magdaleno Peña yesterday said he has asked the Supreme Court to dismiss its earlier order for his disbarment and to reinstate his name in the roll of attorneys.

Peña, in his motion for reconsideration filed June 20, a copy of which he furnished the DAILY STAR yesterday, asked that his disbarment be dismissed for lack of merit, alleging that it was a clear attempt to silence him against what he claimed to be anomalies committed by certain members of the SC.

In a decision dated April 17 the SC had ordered the disbarment of Peña for accusations he had hurled against two members of the High Court.

The official of the Department of Education who is facing charges for illegal drug use and child abuse has been reinstated, and is now back at work, DepEd Region 6 Director Mildred Garay told the DAILY STAR Saturday.

Garay said they accepted the application for reinstatement of Joshua Santillana, 55, of Fortune Town Subdivision, Bacolod, and assigned as DepEd District supervisor of Cadiz after he was released on bail from detention.

Santillana was meted an indeterminate suspension by the DepEd Regional Office when he was detained on May 31 following his arrest at an alleged drug den in Brgy. Banago, Bacolod City, Garay said.