NORECO 2 warns
of pilferage
BY RENE GENOVE

The Negros Oriental Electric Cooperative II yesterday warned its member-customer-owners against unscrupulous persons going around and approaching big load consumers with the promise of decreasing the electricity consumption and reducing the electricity bill through pilferage methods.

Noreco 2 general manager Eunora Sameon said the cooperative is cautioning the MCOs not to entertain these people and not to engage in illegal activities since pilferage of electricity is a criminal act punishable under Republic Act 7832, or the Anti-electricity and Electric Transmission Lines/Materials Pilferage Act of 1994.

Sameon said any person caught pilfering, or illegally tapping electricity, is subject to six to 12 years imprisonment, or a fine ranging from P10,000 to P20,000, or both, and payment of the unregistered consumption and fines imposed by Noreco 2..

3 linked to Mexico
drug cartel nabbed

MANILA – Philippine anti-drug police said yesterday they had arrested three people connected to Mexico's feared Sinaloa drug cartel while they were storing narcotics.

The two Filipinos and one Filipino-Chinese were arrested in a raid on Wednesday on a cock-fighting farm in Lipa City, 75 kilometers (47 miles) south of Manila, after weeks of intelligence operations by local and US anti-narcotics personnel.

Seized in the raid were 84 kilograms (185 pounds) of methamphetamine hydrochloride, popularly known as "ice" or "shabu", as well as two firearms, said police officials.

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