Man dies, wife critical
after vehicular accident

A man died Monday and his wife is still in critical condition after their motorcycle figured in a head-on collision with a Pajero vehicle in Brgy. Mansilingan, Bacolod City, Sunday.

Police Officer 3 Joey Mira, traffic investigator, reported yesterday that Cedrick Patrimonio, 37, of Grandville Subdivision in Brgy. Mansilingan, died at 3:19 a.m. Monday while being treated at the Bacolod Adventist Hospital.

Patromonio was driving his Kawasaki motorcycle with plate number FF3119 and heading south of Alberto Arceo Avenue at about 11:40 p.m. Sunday with his wife, Mary Jane, 32, as backrider when the accident occurred, police records showed.

Investigation conducted by Mira, showed that the Pajero vehicle with plate number RCL528 driven by Alan Antones, 35, of Regent Pearl Homes Subdivision in Brgy. Alijis was trying to execute a U-turn to Panaad drive, when it hit the approaching motorcycle of the Patrimonios.

With the death of Cedrick, the case has been elevated to homicide with physical injuries and damages to property through reckless imprudence, Mira said.

Meanwhile, three persons were injured in road mishaps in Bacolod City Wednesday.

Police records yesterday identified those injured as Julie John Altar, 25, of San Juan Street; Karla Lipa, 17, of Brgy. Taculing; and Noel Aguadaña all in Bacolod.

Altar was on his Rusi 150cc motorcycle at about 6:45 a.m. and was at Puentebella Subdivision when it collided with the van driven by Roger Rogera, 50, of St. Francis Village in Brgy. Taculing Bacolod.

Aguadaña, meanwhile, was on board the Suzuki Carry while driven by Karl Marx Pillo, 27, of JJ Gonzaga Subdivision at about 8:30 a.m. when a blue pick-up vehicle hit it at the intersection of CL Montelibano Drive and Narra Street.

Lipa was also injured when a taxi driven by Alberto Relatalla, 58 of Brgy. Sum-ag sideswiped her while she was crossing the pedestrian lane at Gatuslao Street Bacolod near La Consolacion College at about 1 p.m.*APN

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Murder suspect
apprehended

Combined operatives of the Bacolod police and Regional Intelligence Unit of Police Regional Office – 6 arrested a man wanted for murder at about 1:10 a.m. yesterday in Barangay 29, Bacolod City.

Chief Insp. Ulysses Ortiz, Station 1 commander, identified the suspect as Radito Bolneo, 22 of Purok Everlasting, Barangay 29, Bacolod.

PO2 Joshua Barile of the Regional Intelligence Unit 6 said a civilian informant tipped them, leading to the arrest of the suspect.

Bolneo is wanted for killing a man at Locsin Street in Bacolod more than four years ago.

Barile also said there were eight suspects in the crime, and seven are still wanted by the police.

Meanwhile, Station 8 policemen arrested Marlon Tortogo, 30 of Bangga Totong, Barangay Handumanan, Bacolod, who was one of the suspects in the stabbing of Felbert Flores, 20, of Barangay Singcang-Airport, Bacolod.

Police records showed that Flores came from a drinking session when the suspects identified as Joemar Tortogo and Shoji Tacluyan arrived in a motorcycle, they had a heated discussion and before the victim could hit the suspect in the head, Tortogo stabbed him with an unknown type of bladed weapon.

Joemar Tortogo and Shoji Tacluyan are still wanted by the police.*

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Guidelines on bomb
incident reporting out

The Bacolod City Police released yesterday the procedures for media practitioners in covering bombing incidents, or instances where luggage containing suspected explosives are found.

The procedures are based on the guidelines issued by the Philippine National Police Headquarters, to avoid untoward incidents.

Chief Insp. Noel Polines of the BCPO said reporters are advised never to attempt to approach, examine, poke, shake, squeeze, open, drop or mishandle suspect packages in any way, and should report immediately to law enforcers the occurrence of a bombing incident.

Polines said reporters covering bombing incidents should look for the designated spokespersons upon arrival at the scene of the crime, and if there are none, they should stay at the police-designated media broadcast area, outside of the police line.

He also reminded reporters to always put in mind personal safety, and if no police line has been established yet, they should look for a safe place and refrain from making moves that may aggravate the situation.

The media shall not be allowed access to any area or scene of an incident or crime where there is a possibility that evidence may be damaged, altered, destroyed or otherwise prejudiced by its existence being published or portrayed, Polines said.

When the scene of the crime operatives finish processing the crime scene and have secured all evidences, members of the media may be allowed to enter the area and take footages on photographs of the scene, but upon permission of the commanding officer, or SOCO team leader, Polines added.

So as not to aggravate the situation, Polines said the PNP is asking reporters not to make identification of groups claiming responsibility for bombings, no speculation on what might be happening, and that reports must be confined only to facts released by the police.

These guidelines have already been disseminated throughout the country, Polines said.*APN

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