Police probing several leads
in death of disco bar manager

The Bacolod Police has established several motives for the fatal shooting of the manager of a disco bar at the Goldenfield Commercial Complex in Bacolod City Thursday, but Senior Insp. Charles Gever, Station 8 commander, yesterday refused to give details in order not to hamper their investigation and the arrest of the suspects.

Melecio Endrinal, “alias Thunder”, 38, of Purok Villa, Brgy. Tangub in Bacolod, was shot by two still unidentified suspects and was hit on his face, chest, and hands, while he and three female companions were having breakfast at about 5:20 a.m. Thursday in Purok Gracia, Brgy. Singcang-Airport in Bacolod, Gever said.

He was rushed to the Bacolod Adventist Medical Center but died at about 7 a.m., police records show.

Recovered at the crime scene were four slugs of a still unknown caliber of firearm, a .45 caliber pistol from the bag of Endrinal; P4,000 in cash collection from his disco bar; personal belongings; and Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and Highway Patrol Group identification cards, police said.

Meanwhile, an autopsy on the remains of the “homosexual” photographer, who was found under his bed in Calong-Calong Zone 1, Brgy. Singcang-Airport in Bacolod City, on May 26, showed that he had died of hemorrhage, from stab wounds in his neck and body.

The autopsy conducted by Police Chief Insp. Noel Martinez, medico legal officer of the regional Scene of the Crime Operation, showed that Colin Olaera died due to massive loss of blood.*SGG

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Stepdad faces rape raps

The stepfather of a molested child was charged for rape Wednesday before the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office in Bacolod City.

Supt. Santiago Rapiz, Victorias City police officer-in-charge, yesterday said the 10-year-old victim, who was molested allegedly by the live-in partner of her mother in a barangay in the city, was found positive for rape as shown by the results of a medical check-up.

Police records show that the molestation took place on May 25 at her residence. However, it was reported to the police only on June 3, after it was found out by a neighbor of the victim.

The suspect, whose identity has also been withheld, is still at-large.

Meanwhile, Police Officers 2 Ian Libo-on and Jerald Perlado apprehended yesterday a certain Aldin Boy Rosales,20, in Brgy. Rizal, Silay City, by virtue of the arrest warrant for theft (service of sentence), issued by Judge Felipe Banzon.

Rosales is now detained at the Silay police jail.*GPB

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2 nabbed for illegal gambling

Two persons were arrested by the police for engaging in illegal jai alai operations in barangays 6 and 17, Bacolod City, Thursday.

Arrested were Jessica Maravilla, 43, of Purok Pilit I, Brgy. 6, and Almer Nemenzo, 18, of Brgy. 17, all in Bacolod, police records show.

The police said Maravilla was nabbed at about 9 p.m., for soliciting bets in illegal numbers game, or jai alai, in Purok Pilit I.

Recovered from her were a tipster with codename “Bullet”, P60 in bet money, assorted sheets with number combinations, several carbon papers, and a ballpen, police records show.

Nemenzo was nabbed in Purok Paglaum, Brgy. 17, at about 11 p.m. when he was caught tallying bets for the illegal numbers game, and the police recovered 34 tally sheets with number combinations, P349 in bet money, a ballpen and a mountain bike from him, police records show.

The police said, charges for violation of Republic Act 9287, or illegal gambling, will be filed against the suspects, before the Bacolod City Prosecutor’s Office soon.*SGG

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