Guard in serious condition after
accidentally shooting self

A security guard who accidentally shot himself while playing with his service firearm in Brgy. Singcang-Airport, Bacolod City, at about 6:30 a.m. yesterday, is now in serious condition.

Police Officer 1 Roberto Gaurana, case investigator of Police Station 8, identified the victim as Andrew Von Olmedo, 30, of Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, and employed by Mid Security Agency.

Investigation showed that Olmedo had left his post at Joy Ann’s pharmacy at Araneta Street, to have drinks with Benjie Gerano at the Turner Machine shop in Purok Saturn Venus, Brgy. Singcang-Airport, when the incident happened.

Gerano and John Michael Dabuco, 24, of Purok Kaingin in Brgy. Singcang-Airport, told the police that Olmedo was playing with his gun and accidentally discharged it, hitting his head. He was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, where he is now confined.

Policemen recovered Olmedo’s service firearm, a .38 caliber revolver with four live ammunition and an empty cartridge in the barrel, and the guard’s uniform at the crime scene.

Station 8 chief, Senior Insp. Jerick Filosofo, meanwhile, has ordered Gaurana to investigate the case for any possible foul play.*APN

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20 injured in
vehicular accident

A school bus owned by the Silay City government figured in an accident Friday in Brgy. Patag, Silay, Negros Occidental, and 20 of its 30 passengers, who were about to attend a funeral were injured, the police said.

Supt. Rosauro Francisco, Silay chief of police, said yesterday that the Alpas family requested for the use of school bus number 12 to ferry those attending the burial.

Francisco said that bus driver Hernan Rubica lost control of the vehicle while negotiating an elevated portion of the Patag barangay road, when he tried to avoid hitting five children who were walking on the road. The bus flipped over and hit a tree, that prevented it from falling into a ravine.

Police identified the injured passengers as Maria Paz Guinabo, Rosario Pasco, Norlyn Piedad, Cynthia Pepito, Donna Grace Delante, Janine Duran, Ruel Delanten, Teresita Jimenea, Allan Alpas, Lydia Lavadia, Julia Duran, Jonna Joy Alpas, Irene Alpas, Dolores Zamora, Analisa Teodoro, Marilyn Catalan; and minors Jonathan Pangilason, 12; Cliff Paulo Tonligan, 9, and Trevyan Allan Alpas, 11.

They were rushed to the Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital by ambulances of Silay City and various private vehicles. Francisco said the passengers sustained chest, knee and back pains, injuries and contusions in the head, neck and foot, and some had swollen eyes.

Except for Julia Duran, who was transferred to the Our Lady of Mercy Hospital in Bacolod City, the other victims were released from the TLJPH being treated for after their injuries, he added.*GPB

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PNP: 5 ‘jai alai’
operators arrested

Five suspected jai alai operators, including a minor, were apprehended in Barangays Singcang-Airport and Sum-ag, and at Mabini and Palanca streets, Bacolod City, yesterday and Saturday.

Station 6 policemen arrested Diego Aligado, 36, of Purok Neptune in Brgy. Singcang-Airport, who was soliciting bets for jai alai at Mabini Street at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday.

Several betting stubs with number combinations and tipsters with the codename “Target” were recovered from Aligado during his arrest, Chief Insp. Noel Polines, Station 6 commander, reported.

Police Officer 2 Eman Anacleto of Police Station 9 nabbed Oscar Abay, 62, of Purok Progreso in Brgy. Sum-ag, while he was collecting bets for the illegal numbers game in the purok at around 6:30 p.m. Saturday. An angle calendar, a ballpen and P53 in bet money, were seized from the suspect, police records show.

Carlito Sabello, 59, of Purok Boulevard in Brgy. 14, meanwhile, was arrested by Station 1 policemen, at Palanca Street at about 7 p.m. A ballpen, a tipster with the codename “Target” and P49 in bet money were recovered from him, the police added.

Regional Special Operations-6 also nabbed three more jai alai operators at about 7 a.m. yesterday in an entertainment bar at the Goldenfields Commercial Complex in Brgy. Singcang-Airport.

RSOG chief, Insp. Mark Louie Segua, identified those arrested as Albert Villaflor, 31, and Joel Cuaycong, 28, both of Fortune Town, Estefania, Bacolod, and their 15-year-old companion.

Recovered from them were a motorcycle, a yellow pad with number combinations, and four bundles of tipsters with the codename “Target”.*APN

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