2 lending collectors
held up by armed men

Two armed men held up two lending collectors at about 11 a.m. Saturday in Brgy. Sum-ag, Bacolod City.

Police records yesterday identified the victims as Jeseme Labajo, 19, of Brgy. Villamonte and her officemate Wilmar Sola of Brgy. Tangub, both in Bacolod.

Labajo told the police they were on board a motorcycle at Barangay Street in Purok San Sebastian at about 11 a.m., when the suspects flagged them down. She said the suspects, who were armed with a bladed weapon and what appeared to be a .38 caliber revolver, asked them to alight and then declared a hold-up.

The suspects took the victims’ P10,000 cash collection and Labajo’s cellular phone and used the Kawazaki motorcycle with plate number TH-6510 of Sola as their getaway vehicle, police records showed.

Police Officer 2 Docelio Pachoro, desk officer on duty, said a trisikad driver was in the area when the alleged incident occurred, but he claimed that he did not see what happened as he was answering the call of nature.

The area where the hold-up incident happened was the same place where Visayan DAILY STAR reporter Adrian Nemes III was held up on May 1 this year.

The investigation on the case is ongoing, although the victims failed to describe the suspects.*

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ROAD MISHAP
‘Killed victim had
driver’s license’

The nurse who died in a vehicular accident in Brgy. Alijis, Bacolod City, Sunday last week, had a driver’s license contrary to what had been reported.

The clarification was made by lawyer Romeo Flora, counsel for former Sangguniang Panlalawigan Board Member Bernabe Gilbor, the victim’s father, in a letter he sent to the DAILY STAR Friday.

Gilbor’s daughter, Babe Gilbor, 25, of Brgy. Taculing died Tuesday while being treated at the Pablo O. Torre Memorial Hospital and not at the Doctor’s Hospital as reported by the police , two days after the Honda CRV she was driving figured in an accident with the Isuzu Dimax driven by San Enrique town Councilor Emmanuel Salgado, 28.

Investigation conducted by Police Officer 1 Ferdimark Peñarroyo showed that the younger Gilbor, who was with her mother Eva Fernandez, was driving her vehicle and was heading north of Alijis Road when the accident happened.

Flora also clarified that the elder Gilbor was not a former president of the Association of Barangay Council, he was president of the Councilor’s League of Negros Occidental.

Peñarroyo yesterday said that no settlement has been reached yet between the two parties. He said they are waiting for the family of Gilbor to communicate with them for the formal filing of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide charges against Salgado.*APN

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‘Drug peddler’
nabbed in Binalbagan

An alleged drug peddler was arrested Friday by the police during a buy-bust operation at Purok Talisay, Brgy. Marina, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental.

Inspector Albert Sy, Binalbagan police officer-in-charge, identified the arrested suspect as Jhon Rey Penalba, alias Paking, of Brgy. Pilar, Hinigaran.

Sy said the arrest of Penalba, 23, yielded six small sachets of suspected shabu and a P500 bill  in  marked money.

Penalba is now detained at the Binalbagan police jail, while the confiscated suspected shabu will be forwarded to the PNP Crime Laboratory in Bacolod City,for examination.

Sy was joined by SPO1 Joseph Marcel Rojo and PO2 Oliver Dimamay in the conduct of the buy-bust operation, which led to the arrest of Penalba.*GPB

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