IN BAGO HACIENDA
1 of 4 gunmen in slay of
watchman arrested

One of the four suspects in the fatal shooting of an hacienda watchman was arrested Monday night by the police in Brgy. Don Jorge Araneta, Bago City , Negros Occidental.

Supt. Melchor Coronel, Bago police chief, yesterday identified the arrested suspect as Edwin Suarez, of Hacienda Montara in the barangay.

Coronel said Suarez was positively identified by a witness as one of the four men who gunned down Rene Tomulin, 32, an hacienda watchman, in Brgy. Don Jorge Araneta, Sunday night.

He identified the three others as Tiburcio Vasquez, alias Tibong, and his two cousins, Daku and Gamay Vasquez.

Tomulin suffered three gunshot wounds in the head when he was shot by the suspects, with .45 caliber pistols.

Police investigations show that Tomulin was assaulted and shot without any provocation.

Bago policemen who responded to the incident, recovered a deformed slug, two empty shells and a live ammunition of .45 caliber pistol at the crime scene.

Intelligence operatives of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office assisted Bago policemen in the arrest of Suarez at Hacienda Gay in the barangay.*GPB

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Bacoleño stabbed
by robbers

Unidentified robbers stabbed a man at about 10 p.m. Monday in Bacolod City , case investigator, Police Officer 2 Orlando Caporal, said yesterday.

He identified the victim as Ramencito Delis, 31, of 16 th Lacson Street , Bacolod , who sustained a stab wound on his right hip.

Investigation showed that Delis was at the junction of Burgos and Lacson streets on his way home, when the two suspects approached him and declared a hold-up.

One of the suspects took a cellular phone with undetermined market value and P23,000 in cash, and stabbed Delis with an icepick, before fleeing with his companion. Delis was rushed to the Pablo O. Torre Memorial Hospital where he is now recuperating, Caporal said.

No one was able to witness the incident, Caporal said, adding that the victim also failed to identify his assailants, as the area was dark.

A call center employee and a woman also sought police help Monday and yesterday claiming that their belongings were stolen at the Bacolod downtown area.

Gerard Dave Geduriagao, 26, of JR Torres Subdivision, Bacolod said an unidentified man snatched his wallet containing P300 in cash, ATM and identification cards while he was on board a passenger jeepney at about 11 p.m. Monday at Araneta Street, Bacolod.

Lucille Nicor, 24, of San Juan Street, in the city told the police that her bag with P4,000 in cash, and ATM and identification cards were stolen from her rented room at about 10 a.m. yesterday.*APN

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File mauling charges,
painter's family urged

If the family of Joseph Durable believes that Police Station 6 chief, Senior Insp. Ulysses Ortiz, and his men had something to do with his mauling, they should file charges against them, Bacolod City Police officer-in-charge Senior Supt. Celestino Guara said yesterday.

Durable, 31, a painter from Brgy. 28, Bacolod was arrested after he threw a bottle of beer at Gonzaga Extension and was detained at Station 6, where the detainees allegedly maltreated him on orders of a policeman.

Ortiz has denied the allegations of Durable. He said the detainees maltreated him because he vomited on their food.

Guara said that the Bacolod police can investigate the incident, but he is suggesting that the family file the case before the offices of the Police Internal Affairs Service, or the National Police Commission Office.

“We would like to avoid suspicion of a white-wash because Ortiz is a Bacolod police chief,” Guara said.

He said he was able to talk to one of Durable's relatives and advised them on what to do.*APN

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