Sexagenarian man nabbed
for illegal drugs, firearm

Policemen yesterday arrested a 60-year-old man, who was caught in the act of selling prohibited drugs to a poseur-buyer, at Canetown Subdivision in Brgy. 19-A, Victorias City, Negros Occidental.

Supt. Santiago Rapiz, Victorias Police officer-in-charge, said the arrest of Danilo Ynayan, 60, during a buy-bust operation at his residence, yielded 12 sachets of suspected shabu with an estimated market value of P6,000; P1,451 in cash believed to be proceeds from the sale of prohibited drugs; P300 in marked money, and assorted drug paraphernalia.

Ynayan, who confessed to having been selling shabu since March, has been included in the list of persons suspected to be engaged in the illegal drug trade in Victorias City, Rapiz added.

The arrested suspect also surrendered a.38 caliber revolver with four live ammunition, he said.

Ynayan is now detained at the Victorias police jail, pending the filing of charges against him.

Rapiz said they also filed on Friday charges for illegal possession of firearms against Enrique Palma Jr., who was arrested on June 13 at Gloriville Subdivision in Victorias City.

The arrest of Palma also yielded a .38 caliber revolver with two live ammunition.*GPB

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4 charged for theft
of musical gadgets

The four suspects, who allegedly stole P185,000 worth of musical instruments from the Cube Coffee House at North Drive, Bacolod City, Friday, were charged for robbery before the Bacolod City Prosecutor’s Office yesterday, Station 4 commander, Chief Insp. Adonis Rosales, said.

Charged were Aeron Banaylo, 33; John Romeo, 32; Rene Bornales, 27; all of Purok 3, Magsungay, Brgy. Singcang-Airport; and Niño Venas, 30, of Purok Mabinuligon, Brgy. 35, all in Bacolod, police records show.

The owner of the equipment, Karen Tajanlangit, reported to the police that on Thursday morning, when they opened their shop, they discovered that a drum machine worth P50,000; a pearly mixer valued at P50,000; and a guitar amplifier worth P85,000, were gone, Rosales said.

Tajanlangit’s son, Javier, who pretended to buy musical instruments, encountered the suspects in Brgy. Sum-ag on Friday, who offered him photos of the instruments, Rosales said.

Javier then made a deal to buy the instruments and said he will pick them up but the suspects changed the venue of the meeting several times and later settled on a business establishment at San Sebastian-Araneta streets in Bacolod. It was there where they were nabbed by the police in an entrapment operation at about 8 p.m., Rosales said.

The victim positively identified the instruments that were recovered in Brgy. Sum-ag as hers, records show.

Banaylo, Romeo and Bornales told the DAILY STAR that they are not robbers, and were asked by their friend, Venas, to sell the items.

Venas told the DAILY STAR that he had no idea where the items came from as he was only told by his friend, whose name he did not disclose, to look for a buyer for them.*SGG

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Ammunition seized

A man reported to be creating alarm and scandal was arrested by the police in Purok Santo Niño, Phase 6B, Brgy. Handumanan in Bacolod City, and two pieces of ammunition were recovered from him at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, Station 10 chief, Senior Insp. Terence Paul Santa Ana, said yesterday.

The person arrested was identified as Rene Ostan, 55, of Purok Santo Niño, Phase 6B, Brgy. Handumanan, Bacolod, Santa Ana said.

Investigation showed that Ostan’s neighbors, Kriemhild Elijay, 57, and Yorapyl Brennan, 24, asked for police assistance when the suspect created alarm and scandal, and fired a gun in front of their house.

Policemen who went to the area nabbed Ostan, who resisted and defamed the policemen trying to arrest him, Santa Ana said.

Two pieces of ammunition for a .38 caliber pistol and an empty shell, also of .38 caliber firearm that were recovered from Ostan, were turned over to the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office. Results later showed him positive for gun powder nitrates traces, Santa Ana said.

Charges for alarm and scandal, oral defamation, resistance and disobedience to person in authority, and violation of Republic Act 8294, or the illegal possession of ammunition, were filed against Ostan before the Bacolod City Prosecutor’s Office yesterday, Santa Ana added.

Meanwhile, a suspect wanted for theft charges was arrested by Station 6 policemen at about 7:30 a.m. yesterday, in Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod, the police said.

Johnny Lumangyaw Jr., 36, of Santa Lucia Subdivision, Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod, was nabbed on the strength of the warrant of arrest issued by Municipal Trial Court in Cities Branch 3 Judge Napoleon Diamante, who set his bail at P10,000, police records show.*SGG

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