Cops use Facebook to trace
man wanted for murder

A man tagged as the second most wanted person in Catanduanes Province for shooting dead his younger brother last year, was arrested in Bacolod City at about 4 p.m. yesterday through the help of Facebook.

Domingo Tablo, 52, of Brgy. Sta. Elena, Virac town, Catanduanes was arrested while refueling at a gasoline station Senior Insp. Richie Gohee, Station 5 chief, said.

Tablo was apprehended on the strength of an arrest warrant issued by Virac Regional Trial Court Executive Judge Lelu Contreras, who denied him bail, Gohee said.

Information received by the police showed that Tablo shot his brother, Maximo, over a land conflict and immediately fled to Negros Occidental, where the family of his wife lives.

The wife of the younger Tablo sought the help of Cadiz City Jail warden, Insp. Alexander Sy, who, in turn, coordinated with Gohee for the arrest of the suspect.

Gohee said they searched for the name of the suspect’s daughter in Facebook, and through the pictures posted there, learned that he is living in Brgy. 35, Bacolod.

He said Senior Insp. Jose Micheal Aurelio of the Catanduanes Provincial Police Office had issued a certification that the elder Tablo is indeed their second most-wanted personality.

The suspect will be fetched up by the Catanduanes police and brought back to their province.*APN

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‘Mr. X’ named,
body claimed

The remains of the unidentified man, believed to have been mauled to death by three teenagers in Purok Maabi-abihon, Brgy. Banago, Bacolod City Saturday, were claimed by his family Monday, Station 3 chief, Senior Insp. Dianne Grace Aquitania said yesterday.

Aquitania said the family of Arnold Penoso, 31, of Purok Sigay, Brgy. 2, sought police help Sunday when he failed to come home.

The family also went to ABS-CBN Bacolod to report that he had been missing and they later learned that an unidentified man was killed in Purok Maabi-abihon, she said.

Aquitania also said the family of Penoso met with her Monday for the description of the slain man before they went to the morgue of the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital.

The police already have the names of the suspects in the killing but Aquitania refused to divulge them as charges have not been filed yet.

A video captured by a closed-circuit television camera showed Penoso sitting beside the road at around 1 a.m. when three teenagers mauled and hit him with bamboo poles.

Penoso was brought to the CLMMRH, where he died while being treated several minutes later.*APN

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‘Peddler’ nabbed
in drug bust

A suspected drug peddler was apprehended by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in a buy-bust operation in Purok Sigay, Brgy. 2, Bacolod City, at about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Intelligence Officer 1 Jay-R Espares identified the person arrested as Renato de la Peña, 43, of Purok Ylac in Brgy. Sum-ag, Bacolod, who was apprehended after he handed a small heat-sealed sachet of suspected shabu to a poseur-buyer in exchange for P500, police records show.

Two additional small heat-sealed sachets of the banned substance were recovered from de la Peña when he was arrested, the police added.

De la Peña is now detained at the lockup cell of Police Station 2 and charges for illegal drug sale and possession will be filed against him.*APN

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