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Pregnant
woman held up

A man and his female companion allegedly held up a pregnant woman and forced her to withdraw money from an ATM bank at Amelia Street, Bacolod City, at about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, while in a subdivision in Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod, a nurse was wounded in the neck when she tried to wrest her bag from a snatcher at about 1 p.m. on the same day.

Jan Marie Sy, of Rosario Heights, Taculing, who is seven months pregnant, told the police that she was in a passenger jeep at Locsin Street, Bacolod at about 7 a.m., when a man and a woman boarded, threatened her with a knife, declared a hold-up and took her P4,000 in cash.

When the suspects saw the ATM card in her wallet, she said they forced her to alight from the jeep and brought her to the Philippine National Bank at Amelia Street, Bacolod, and ordered her to withdraw P5,500 in cash before leaving her.

However, in a review of the video captured by the closed circuit television camera installed at the ATM booth, Sy was seen talking on her cellular phone and had no companion, Chief Insp. Noel Polines, Station 6 commander, told the DAILY STAR.

Polines added that the video also showed that, contrary to her claims, Sy did not withdraw any money from the ATM machine.

Meanwhile, Serna Rogan, 50, of St. Francis Subdivision, Brgy. Taculing, said she was walking home at Springfield 1 Street when the suspect waylaid her, pointed a knife at her neck, snatched her bag, that contained 100 British pounds, P1,000 in cash, and documents, and fled.

She said the suspect was clad in a maroon T-shirt, was 5’5” to 5’7” tall, slim and had short hair, police records show.

Polines said they will put up police community centers at the Fuentebella and Doña Juliana subdivisions, two of the largest residential areas in Brgy. Taculing, to prevent robbery hold-up and snatching incidents there.

There are already COMPACs in Purok BM in Brgy. Taculing, and at Libertad South Public Market in Bacolod, he said.*APN

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Gun ban violator nabbed

Station 3 policemen arrested the third MassKara gun ban violator at about 8 p.m. Wednesday in Brgy. Bata, Bacolod City.

Senior Insp. Conrado Rances III, Station 3 chief, identified the one arrested as Salmino Grijaldo, 30, of Purok Pag-isa in Brgy. Bata.

A homemade shotgun or “sulpak” with a 12-gauge shotgun bullet, was recovered from Grijaldo during his arrest, police records show.

Rances said they received a phone call from a concerned citizen informing them that Grijaldo was at the Technopacer Machine Shot owned by Abraham de Dios, 56, without permission.

Investigation showed that Grijaldo was confronted by the security guard of a nearby establishment on September 11 when he tried to enter the machine shop without permission.

Grijaldo is believed to be involved in hold-up incidents and break-ins of different houses in Brgy. Bata, the police said.

At about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Christopher Parreño, 31, of Purok Kingfisher, Brgy. 16, Bacolod, who had a pin gun, was arrested by Station 6 policemen after he allegedly took money from a store at Amelia Street.

Meanwhile, Bacolod City police director, Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz, said Police Officers 1 Shaun Nelmida and Joemel Mialen of the Negros Occidental Provincial Police Office, who shot Noel Cabrera, 30, of Galo Street, Brgy. 20, Bacolod Monday, have mission orders permitting them to carry firearms while in civilian clothes.

De la Paz said he will confer awards for Nelmida and Mialen for rescuing Cabrera’s father-in-law, Eduardo Rodero, 58, also of Galo Street, who had been threatened by the suspect him with his .38 caliber revolver.*APN

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