City police arrest
barangay captain
BY ADRIAN NEMES III

A barangay captain from Bacolod City with arrest warrants for four counts of falsification of public documents and four counts of graft and corruption was apprehended at 6 p.m. last night, Police Station 2 chief, Senior Insp. Robert Dejucos said.

Brgy. 7 Captain Bernabe Sibug, however, said the charges were only politically motivated and will not affect his performance.

Dejucos said Sibug was apprehended by the team of the City Police Special Operations Task Group by virtue of an arrest warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Franklin Demonteverde who set his bail at P24,000 for each count of falsification of public documents, and P30,000 for each count of graft and corruption charges, police records showed.

Two were killed, one a minor, and three policemen were injured in vehicular accidents in Hinigaran town and in Sagay City, Negros Occidental, Wednesday.

Police identified the fatalities as Cielo Pailuran, 11, of Brgy. Bato, Hinigaran and Richie Nicos, 45, of Brgy. Poblacion Uno, Sagay City.

Pailuran who reportedly crossing the street in Sitio Linao in Brgy. Bato at about 5 p.m. Wednesday when she was sideswiped by the patrol car of Isabela town, Negros Occidental.