Ma kills hubby, child
INJURES THREE OTHERS, TOO
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

A woman reportedly suffering from postpartum psychosis killed her husband and 1-year-child by stabbing them with a pair of scissors, and also inflicted injuries on her three other children at about 6 a.m. Saturday in Brgy. Bacuyangan, Hinobaan, Negros Occidental, the police said yesterday.

Arlen Galan, 33, stabbed and cut off the reproductive organ of her husband, Johnny, 50, who was unconscious, after she had hit him with an iron bar, Police Officer 3 Eddie Napolis, Hinobaan police investigator, said.

Using the scissors, Galan also stabbed her twin children, Jay Mar and Jay Mark, both 1 year and six months old, and 4-month-old infant, Johnny Jr., who were sleeping beside each other, Napolis also said.

363 gun licenses cancelled
NOT JUST 90 – PEÑA LAWYER
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The Philippine National Police did not just cancel the licenses of 90 firearms seized from the ancestral house of Mayor Magdaleno Peña in Barangay Ubay, Pulupandan, it cancelled 363, including all those of a Bacolod-based security agency, the mayor’s lawyer, Roger Reyes, said yesterday.

This is abuse on the part of the Philippine National Police, Reyes told the DAILY STAR, adding that the licenses were cancelled “without notice or due process, it was done arbitrarily”.

Resolution 2013-056 of the Firearms and Explosives Office (FEO) Board said that, of the 90 firearms seized on May 2 from the ancestral house in Barangay Ubay, 12 were unlicensed.

Nabbed cop freed on bail
BY SHIELA GELERA

The policeman who was nabbed Friday in Brgy. Granada, Bacolod City, for violation of the Commission on Elections gun ban, posted bail on Saturday for his temporary liberty, Senior Insp. Richie Gohee, station 5 commander, said yesterday.

Senior Police Officer 1, Roberto Arrazola, 42, of Glendale Subdivision, Brgy. Granada in Bacolod, who was assigned to man the gate of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, was released after posting bail of P12,000, Gohee said.

The police said a dispute between the group of Arrazola, and that of Omar Gabatanga on Tuesday, was being settled at the Lupong Tagapamayapa in Brgy. Granada on Friday, but when the party of Gabatanga refused a settlement, Arrazola pulled out his service firearm.