2 farmers surrender
for shooting couple

A couple sustained injuries when they were shot while asleep in their house in Sitio Portugalesa, Brgy. Culipapa, Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental, yesterday.

Insp. Mateo Maguate, Hinobaan police chief, said the two suspects, identified as Rudy Verde, 53, and Teresito Hingoyon, 37, peacefully surrendered to the police, after shooting Dante Panilan, and his wife, Natalia.

Police investigations show that Verde and Hingoyon, armed with a 12-gauge homemade shotgun and a .38 caliber revolver, shot the couple because of old grudges.

Despite an injury in his left side, Maguate said, Panila fought back when he saw that his wife had also been shot in the stomach.

The two suspects fled, but left behind their two firearms, a shotgun and a revolver, police investigations showed.

Maguate said Verde and Hingoyon later gave themselves up to the Hinoba-an police station, through the help of a barangay kagawad who convinced them to surrender.

Verde claimed that Panilan had been tagged by Verde as the one who had robbed his son.

The two victims are now being treated at the Eleuterio Decena District Hospital in Hinoba-an while the suspects are locked up in jail.*GPB

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Bantay Dagat,
cops nab 3 illegal fishers

Three fishermen from Bantayan in Cebu province were apprehended yesterday by Bantay Dagat personnel and policemen, for illegal fishing within the territorial waters of Brgy. Old Poblacion, Escalante City, Negros Occidental.

Chief Insp. Santiago Rapiz, Escalante police chief, yesterday identified the three suspects as Ryan Gimenez, 24; Michael Gabriel, 28; and Richard Ilistrisimo, 30, all of Brgy. Lipayran, Bantayan, Cebu.

Rapiz said the three were on board a pump boat when intercepted by a combined team of Escalante police and Bantay Dagat men, who were on a seaborne patrol in the place.

Recovered from them were a compressor with a tank, two improvised arrows for fishing, two goggles, three kilos of fish, two flashlights and 120-meter long plastic hose.

The three fishermen are now detained at the lock-up cell of the Escalante City police station.*GPB

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Robbers apprehended

Two suspects in the ransacking of a barber shop were arrested Tuesday by the police at the highway of Brgy. Zone 12, in Talisay City, Negros Occidental.

Supt. Thomas Joseph Martir, Talisay police chief, yesterday said the suspects, identified as Romar Rodriguez, 21, and Romulo Jemenia, 25, were apprehended by a police team led by PO3 Ramon Lachica, who immediately conducted pursuit operations against the robbers.

Martir said the timely reporting of Rolly Tangguan, owner of the ransacked barber shop, led to the immediate arrest of the suspects.

Recovered from them were barber shop equipment and appliances worth P18,500.

Martir said robbery charges were filed yesterday at the City Prosecutor’s Office of Talisay against Jemenia and Rodriguez, who are now locked up in jail.*GPB

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