SLAY OF 3
Army manhunt on
vs. Ilonggo suspect

More than three months after he allegedly killed three of his colleagues at the Special Force Regiment, Army Sgt. Elias Tial, an Ilonggo, continues to be at large.

Tial is wanted for the death of 1Lt. Gerard Fuentes, a resident of Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, Capt. Dionico Aragon Jr. and MSgt. Eliseo de la Paz, all assigned at the 12th SF Company of the Special Forces Regiment, on Feb. 25, at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City, military records show.

Maj. Gen. Arturo Ortiz, commanding general of the Special Operations Command, said Tial may have used tactics of “escape and evasion” that he had learned at the Special Forces training.

SOCOM supervises the Army’s elite units, among them the Special Forces and Scout Ranger Regiments, and the counter-terrorist Light Reaction Battalion.

Capt. Benito Ramos Jr., commanding officer of the 12th SF Company, survived the shooting spree.

Before the incident, Tial had asked for and was granted permission from his superiors to attend the burial of his father, who died on Feb. 21, in Tigbauan, Iloilo, military records also showed.*GPB

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4 ‘robbers’ facing charges

Robbery hold-up with frustrated homicide charges are poised by the operatives of Police Station 6 against four men nabbed in Bacolod City last week.

Facing charges are Arjay Tribaco, 19, Gringo Alegio, 22, Sandra Aliba, 18, all of Brgy. 30, and James Espinosa, 18, of City Heights Subdivision in Bacolod City.

Senior Insp. Ulysses Ortiz, station commander of Police Station 6, said that they are waiting for the medical reports on the victim, Betomi Aldama, to pursue the charges.

Ortiz said Aldama is still recuperating at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod.

Aldama, of legal age, and resident of Brgy. Villamonte in Bacolod was rushed to the hospital Friday morning after one of the suspects, who rode on his tricycle, attempted to rob him and stabbed him with an ice pick when he fought back.

He sustained three stab wounds and was left by the suspects, who fled after the incident.

Ortiz said the police recovered an ice pick measuring about 10 inches long from one of the suspects. They are now detained at the lock-up cell of Police Station 6, he added.*APN

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