Guihulngan Regional Trial Court Judge Mario Trinidad has ordered the Bacolod police to arrest four more policemen and a police asset allegedly involved in the 2003 kidnapping and murder of a former barangay captain in Bacolod City.

RTC Judge Mario Trinidad has issued an arrest warrant against Insp. Bonifer Gotas, of the 3rd Provincial Mobile Group, SPO1 Nelson Grijaldo, of the Bacolod City Anti-Illegal Special Operations Task Group, PO2s Dennis Belandres and Ruel Villacanas and police asset Richard "Tisoy" Salazar, a court document furnished the DAILY STAR yesterday showed. They were accused for the kidnapping and murder of Brgy. Captain Eleuterio Salabas, Maximo Lomoljo and Ricardo Suganob who were kidnapped and murdered in Bacolod City on August 2003.

Probers clear RMG
in Iloilo capitol siege
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

ILOILO CITY - As expected by some, a police fact-finding team yesterday cleared troopers of the 6th Regional Mobile Group stationed in Negros Occidental, from any "infractions" during their siege of the Iloilo Provincial Capitol.

Police Director Edgardo Doromal, head of the fact-finding team tasked to investigate the Iloilo Capitol assault, said he will even recommend to PNP chief Oscar Calderon that the Western Visayas policemen be commended for doing their job. Doromal also justified the assault and breaking of the glass doors of the Iloilo Provincial Capitol, saying it was not "overkill" as claimed by others.

SolGen seeks to recover
land in Escalante proper
HEIRS FILE SUIT VERSUS CITY, TOO
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The Office of the Solicitor General has filed petition for escheat before the Regional Trial Court of San Carlos asking that ownership of the estate of the late Juan Caminos that covers the bulk of the property in the center of Escalante City be declared in favor of the Republic of the Philippines.

The Solicitor General argued that Juan Caminos died on July 15, 1939 and left no heir entitled to his estate. Escheat is a proceeding whereby the state by virtue of its sovereignty steps in and claims the real and personal property of a person who dies and leaves no heirs, Solicitor General Eduardo Nachura said in his petition filed Nov. 30, 2006.