Cop injured in rumble
at Azkals’ victory party

A policeman was injured when he tried to pacify a commotion between warring groups while a party for the Philippine Azkals at Lacson Street, Bacolod City was ongoing at about 11:10 p.m. Wednesday.

Injured was Senior Police Officer 2 Rovir Montaňez, assigned as team leader of Police Station 2, station commander Chief Insp. Noel Polines said yesterday.

Polines said Montaňez was detailed as marshal for the football players to assist them outside the hotel to meet with fans. Montaňez was near the stage when suddenly a rumble occurred between two warring groups after they were allowed to get inside the party venue, Polines added.

Montaňez arrested one of those involved in the rumble, whose companion however, hit Montaňez on the head with beer bottle, Polines said.

Station 2 policemen arrested members of the warring groups while Montaňez was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital.

Those arrested were Joselito Salimot, 20, Dondon Murillo, 18, Mike Lester Melgalrojo, 21, and their 17-year-old companion, whose name the police withheld. They are now detained at Police Station 2.

None of them have admitted to have hit Montaňez but Polines said they will be charged for alarms and scandal, physical injuries and resisting arrest as ordered by Bacolod City Police Officer in charge, Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz.*APN

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4 men facing
robbery charges

Robbery charges were filed yesterday against four men arrested by Station 3 policemen Wednesday for allegedly robbing a tricycle driver in Brgy. Banago before the Bacolod City Prosecutor’s Office.

The charges were filed against Jude Marquez, “alias Tin-Tin”, 18, Denmark Malata, “alias Mac-Mac”, 19, and Regie Morales, 18, of Purok Riverside, and Jessie Villanueva, “alias Tibong”, 22, of Purok Maabi-abihon, all in Brgy. Banago, Station 3 chief, Insp. Jose Mulleta, said.

They were arrested in a follow-up operation in Purok Riverside at about 11 a.m. Wedensday on the complaints of Noel Guzman Deo, 53, of Purok Kagaykay in Brgy. 2.

Deo had claimed that he was in Purok Riverside in Brgy Banago earlier Tuesday when the suspects blocked his way, threatened him with guns and bladed weapons, took his wallet, cash collection, and tricycle keys and left.

Deo also sustained injuries on his left brow when he attempted to resist from the suspects, police records showed.

Mulleta yesterday urged robbery and snatching victims in the areas of barangays Mandalagan and Bata and the neighboring barangays to identify the suspects, so that additional charges could be filed against them.*APN

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