Gun-for-hire
suspect rearrested

A gun-for-hire suspect, who is also wanted for robbery, was re-arrested at about 4 p.m. Friday when he visited a detained friend at Police Station 4 in Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod City.

Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz, City Police Director, said they re-arrested Raymond Longno, “alias Small Boy”, this time by virtue of an arrest warrant for robbery issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Eliseo Geolingo, who set his bail at P100,000.

Longno was apprehended when he visited Richie Ybañez, who was apprehended by Station 4 policemen for illegal possession of firearms on Thursday.

De la Paz said Longno was arrested two weeks ago after Regional Trial Court Judge Pepito Gellada issued a bench warrant against him for not showing up at the court hearings for frustrated murder and attempted murder cases.

The charges were filed against him by former Barangay Banago Captain Roel Cordova and his aide, after Longno was tagged as prime suspect in their failed assassination try in 2008.

He said Longno submitted an explanation on his failure to attend the hearings, prompting Gellada to issue a release order for him since he had already posted bail for the charges filed by Cordova and his aide.

Longno also engaged in a shootout with Station 1 policemen on November 18, 2009 but was later subdued and arrested with his companions, Joselito Alfonso, 32, of Brgy. Calumangan, Bago City, and Robert de los Santos, 25, of Brgy. 39, Bacolod.

Station 4 chief, Senior Insp. Dianne Grace Aquitania also reported the arrest of Mario Belenario, 23, of Purok Tisa in Brgy. 30, Bacolod City at about 4 p.m. Friday.

Aquitania said Belenario was apprehended by virtue of an arrest warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Edgar Garvilles, who denied him bail.*APN

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LBC Binalbagan robbed

Two unidentified men pretending to be customers yesterday robbed the LBC Cargo and Courier Services branch in Brgy. Progreso, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental.

Investigations by the Binalbagan police showed that victim Flordeliz Balledos, an employee of LBC, was ordered by the two suspects to open the vault, after they helped in opening the roll-up door of the establishment.

Senior Inspector Albert Sy, Binalabagan police chief, yesterday said the two suspects took P18,000 in cash from the vault, and three cellular phones.

They tied Balledos, 47, with packaging tape before fleeing through the back door of the establishment.

Pursuit operations by the Binalbagan police were unsuccessful.

Sy said they will review the closed circuit television camera of the establishment to unmask the identities of the suspects.*GPB

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3 hurt in shooting,
stabbing incidents

Three men were injured in shooting and stabbing incidents in barangays Tangub and 22, in Bacolod City Friday.

Police identified the victims as Jordan Bajada of Purok Kawayan, Brgy. 22; Carmelo Lozadas, 26, of Purok Greenfield, Brgy. Tangub; and JR Sagala, 24, of Purok Sambag in Brgy. Mandalagan, all in Bacolod.

Police Officer 2 Roberto Gaurana, case investigator of Police Station 8, said Lozadas and Sagala were walking along the road of Purok Greenfield at about 12:30 a.m. Friday after buying cigarets from a store when a man called their attention.

Witnesses claimed that when the two looked back, the man opened fire at them with an improvised shotgun, or sulpak, hitting Lozadas in the chest and Sagala in his right foot, Gaurana said.

Sagala and Lozadas were brought to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, but Sagala was later released as his injury was not serious, a police record showed.

Gaurana told the DAILY STAR that they already have the identity of the suspect, but refused to give details pending his arrest.

As to the motive, he said, there is a possibility that the target of the assassination was Sagala, who works in a chicaron (fried pork skin) factory in Purok Greenfield, as they had received information that there were some people in the area who disliked him for unknown reasons.

Bajada, who was stabbed by his neighbor Renante Jenisan, 37, on his abdomen in Purok Kawayan at about 8:30 p.m. Friday for still unknown reason, is also confined at the CLMMRH, Senior Insp. Dianne Grace Aquitania, Station 4 chief, said.

Aquitania added they are yet to establish the motive for the stabbing. Jenisan was apprehended at about 10 p.m. and is now detained at Police Station 4.*APN

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