3 ‘robbers’ arrested in
follow-up pursuit

Three robbery suspects were apprehended in a follow-up operation by Station 8 policemen at the junction of Bangga Dependable and Magsaysay Avenue, Bacolod City, at about 8 a.m. yesterday.

Station 8 commander, Senior Insp. Jerick Filosofo, identified the suspects as Jonel Libre, 27; Raymund Supat, 18; and Rommel Supat, 21, all of Purok Kabulakan Uno in Brgy. Singcang-Airport.

Two cellular phones, an improvised shotgun, or sulpak, with two live ammunitions of a 12-gauge shotgun were recovered from the suspects, police records showed.

The three resisted arrest, while their relatives blocked the way of the policemen, causing a commotion, the police said.

Complainant Irene Grace Lenijan, 20, of Bangga Artem in Brgy. Alijis, Bacolod, had told the police that while she was riding a trisikad at Magsaysay Avenue at about 5:15 a.m. yesterday, the suspects threatened her with bladed weapons and declared a hold-up.

Lenijan claimed that the suspects took two cellular phones valued at P4,000 and fled. She identified Libre through the police’s Rogues’ Gallery and a follow-up operation was conducted, that led to their arrest, Filosofo said.

Meanwhile, Joan Maja, 28, of Fortune Towne Subdivision in Brgy. Estefania, Bacolod, told the police that she was on board a jeepney near the Mormons Church in Airport Subdivision at about 10 p.m. Sunday, when Libre and the younger Supat held her up.

Maja said the suspects, who threatened her with a gun and a bladed weapon, took her P2,000 in cash and cellular phone valued at P3,000, and alighted at Bangga Dependable.

The suspects are detained at the lock-up cell of Police Station 8 and charges are being readied against them.*APN

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Arson charges filed
vs. 3 in Canlusongs

The Philippine National Police and the Bureau of Fire Protection filed arson charges yesterday against three suspects in the burning of three houses in Brgy. Canlusong, EB Magalona, whose owners, police said, are also relatives of those suspects linked to the series of killings in the area.

Supt. Samuel Mina, Task Force 3rd District chief, yesterday identified the respondents in the arson case filed before the Provincial Prosecutors Office, as Onyot Delgado, Hernani Cunanan, and his brother, Herman.

Delgado and the Cunanans were tagged by witnesses, who are the owners of the burned houses, as among the suspects, the police said.

The Commission on Human Rights has categorized Brgy. Canlusong as an “area of concern” as far as peace and order is concerned.

The human rights group Karapatan also linked the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade to the lawlessness in the barangay.

A detachment was established in Brgy. Canlusong to address the peace and order in the area.

Six persons, including three barangay kagawads, were among those killed in remote barangays of EB Magalona, from June to December last year, where three farmers were abducted and three houses burned.

The police said the violence could be traced to the conflict among members of warring families in the barangay, who are allegedly connected, either to an independent armed group, or to the RPA-ABB.

The RPA-ABB has denied links to the killings and incidence of abduction in Brgy. Canlusong.*GPB

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