DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

Some members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Negros Oriental are challenging the Philippine National Police to extend more efforts against hoax incidents victimizing local officials.

In his privilege speech, during the SP session Tuesday, Board Member Angelo Teves said that he is alarmed by the series of incidents involving scammers using his name in making reservations at a restaurant and a hotel, allegedly for VIP guests.

Teves said a hotel employee called his office for confirmation of the reservation booking and a purported request from him for policemen to check the security of the hotel. He added that he immediately alerted the PNP about the incident.

Parking attendant
survives slay try
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

A parking attendant who was shot four times at around 11 a.m. Tuesday, is now recuperating after undergoing surgery at the Silliman University Medical Center in Dumaguete City.

Supt. Crisaleo Tolentino, Dumaguete police chief, identified the victim as Jesus Bulpat Fabe Jr., 33, of San Isidro in Tanjay City, Negros Oriental. After surgery, Wednesday morning, Fabe was able to talk to the police in the afternoon.

Investigation showed that Fabe was at his work place in front of the SUMC when the still unidentified suspect shot him at close range and fled. He sustained gunshot wounds in his legs, right arm and abdomen, but was able to go to the hospital and admit himself, Tolentino added.

Cops nab ‘pusher’
in drug buy-bust
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

A suspected drug pusher was arrested by the police in a buy-bust operation in Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental, Tuesday.

Roberto Bahandi was nabbed by a team from the Sta. Catalina PNP, led by police chief, Sr. Insp. Rogelio Pacificar Jr., in Sitio Sicopong, Barangay Caranoche, after he handed a sachet of suspected shabu to a police poseur buyer in exchange for P500.

Seized from Bahandi were two transparent plastic sachets of suspected shabu, the P500 marked bill, about P1,700 in cash, and a .45 caliber pistol with a magazine containing four rounds of live ammunition that was in a holster, police records show.

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