Homicide charges filed
versus Bacolod resident

Homicide charges were filed before the Bacolod City Prosecutor’s Office yesterday against Mark Lister Chavez, 24, of Cityville Subdivision, Brgy. Estefania, Bacolod City, for allegedly stabbing dead Jeo Josel Daza, 20, at the city’s Art District Sunday.

Station 3 chief, Senior Insp. Conrado Rances, said yesterday that Chavez was arrested after being tagged as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of Daza of Menlo Subdivision in Talisay City, Negros Occidental, at an entertainment bar at the Art District after 12 a.m. Sunday.

In an interview with ABS-CBN, Chavez denied the accusations and said he was only tagged as the suspect because he had earlier filed a case against Daza for hitting his head with a tube pipe.

Rances said, however, there were witnesses who pointed to Chavez as the one who stabbed Daza.

Meanwhile, two men were hacked and stabbed in barangays Singcang-Airport and Brgy. 20, Bacolod, Sunday.

John Rey Mariano, 22, of Purok Sigay in Sitio Magsungay, Brgy. Singcang, was mauled and hacked by his five neighbors, whose names the police withheld.

Initial reports showed that Mariano and the suspects were having drinks when they had a misunderstanding at about 10 p.m.

Bellmark Ortega, 18, of Brgy. 17, Bacolod, also reported to the police that an unidentified man stabbed him in his back for unknown reasons, while he was walking at BBB-Galo streets, near the City Health Office, at about 3 a.m.

Mariano and Ortega were rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, where they are now confined.*APN

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4 cops awarded
for nab of rebel

The police chief of Cadiz City and three police non-commissioned police officers were awarded the Medalya ng Kasanayan yesterday by the Police Regional Office 6 for the arrest of an alleged finance officer of the Komiteng Rehiyonal-Negros last month.

The medal recipients were Supt. Noel Mana-ay, Cadiz police chief, and three of his staff, Senior Police Officer 3 Ramil Lucero and Police Officers 3 Mansueto de Jose and Gerald Bacolado.

Mana-ay and the three police personnel were cited for the arrest of Sarah Alvarez, who is also tagged by the police as the assistant commander of the Jean Pelle Command of the NPA in northern Negros, as well as a volunteer of the Karapatan-Negros, the PRO6 Public Information Office said.

Alvarez has pending arrest warrants for murder and robbery-in-band, issued by Cadiz Regional Trial Court Judge Renato Muñez, police records show. She, however, dismissed them as “trumped-up charges”.

The Cadiz RTC also denied Alvarez, who has the alias of “Ka Olsen”, bail, for murder charges, that stemmed from the death of 1Lt. Archie Polenzo, commander of the 62nd Infantry Battalion Bravo Company, on February 2010.

Alvarez claimed in a radio interview that, because of the frustration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to cripple the NPA revolutionary movement in Negros, ordinary civilians are now being targeted by the military.

Alvarez was also linked to the raid on a fish farm owned by Joseph Edgar Sarrosa, a nephew of Negros Occidental Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr., in Cadiz City, in 2011.*GPB

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Pawnshop, bakery
robbed: police say

A pawnshop and a bakery in Brgy. Mansilingan, Bacolod City, were robbed of cash and several items yesterday.

Station 7 commander, Chief Insp. Levy Pangue, said they already have suspects in the robbery at Palawan Pawnshop and the Olsen Bakeshop but he cannot divulge their identities as the investigation is ongoing.

Investigation showed that employees of the bakeshop and the pawnshop discovered the incident when they opened the establishments at about 4 a.m.

Pangue said the suspects took P10,000 in cash, two cellular phones, three loaves of bread and soda.

He said that, based on their inspection, about two or three suspects, scaled the roof of the establishments, removed the G.I. sheets, and destroyed the ceiling to gain entrance.*APN

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