BacoLaodiat road closure set

The Bacolod City Traffic Management Unit will implement a road closure scheme at Lacson Street, where the BacoLaodiat Festival will be held from Thursday to Saturday.

Insp. Roger Ong, officer-in-charge of the TMU, said yesterday that the closure will start at 22nd – Lacson streets up to South Capitol Road, and at the North Capitol Road, from 2 p.m. to 4 a.m. the following day.

After 4 a.m., vehicles can pass the streets using only two lanes.

All south-bound vehicles may turn left of B.S. Aquino Drive and right to Lopez Jaena Street, all the way to their destinations. Vehicles can also turn right at B.S. Aquino Drive, and left of San Juan Street.

All vehicles from the downtown area going north of Bacolod should use either Gatuslao or San Juan Street, turn right at B.S. Aquino Drive, left at Aguinaldo Street, right at 26th Street, and left at Lacson Street.

Ong is appealing to the riding public to cooperate and follow instructions of traffic discipline officers to avoid inconvenience, as traffic congestions are expected during the three-day celebration.*SGG

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Student, 3 ‘peddlers’
arrested for drugs

A high school student and three other suspected drug peddlers were arrested Friday by the police in Hinigaran town and in the cities of La Carlota and Silay, Negros Occidental, for selling prohibited drugs.

Apprehended during a buy-bust operation in Brgy. E Lopez, Silay City, was Charlie Labaosas, 41. His arrest yielded six sachets of suspected shabu and P300 in marked money.

Another buy-bust operation by the police in Brgy. Batuan, La Carlota City, led to the arrest of Jomer Lademora, 25, and Donald Locsin, 23.

Chief Inspector Gary Alan Resuma, La Carlota police officer-in-charge, yesterday said they recovered two sachets of alleged shabu from the two suspects. The buy-bust operation was witnessed by kagawad Joefel Tajonera.

A fourth year high school student, identified as Joerydel Boluntate, 26, was also caught in the act of selling suspected marijuana cigarettes inside a school campus in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental, by Ivan Nepaes and Razel Nangan.

In his report to Senior Supt. Milko Lirazan, provincial police director of Negros Occidental, Chief Inspector Lino Dalisay said the arrest of Boluntate also yielded six pieces of marijuana cigarettes and P40 in cash.

The four suspects are now in jail.*GPB

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Teacher held up

A teacher waiting for a bus, with three of her family members, was held up at knifepoint, in front of the old airport, at Araneta Street in Bacolod City, at about 4:45 a.m. yesterday, Senior Insp. Ser Ulrick Christian Gelera, Station 8 chief, said.

Conie Marie Madroño, 23, of Hinigaran town in Negros Occidental, her mother, Virgieluz Madroño, and Elizabeth and John Nicole, both surnamed Diaz, had come from St. Peter Funeral Homes in Brgy. Alijis, Bacolod, and were about to take a bus for Hinigaran, when an unidentified man approached them.

The man pointed a bladed weapon Conie Marie and grabbed her shoulder bag, that contained a Lenovo laptop worth P33,000, a Cherry Mobile cellular phone valued at P7,000, P300 in cash, and several identification cards.

Madroño, who tried to fight back, was stabbed in her left arm, Gelera said.

At the police station, Madroño positively identified the suspect, through the Rogues’ Gallery, as Ronald Hilaga, about 30 years old, of Calong-Calong, Brgy. Singcang-Airport, also in the city, Gelera said.

He said Hilaga was arrested at his house a few hours later, and the cellular phone of Madroño was recovered from him.

The police is conducting follow-up operations to locate the belongings of Madroño.

Gelera said they will file robbery-hold-up charge against Hilaga today, at the Bacolod City Prosecutor’s Office.*SGG

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BCPO to get awards

The Bacolod City Police Office will receive two awards today at the Police Regional Office-6, Camp Martin Delgado in Iloilo City.

The BCPO yielded the highest percentage of positive operations against loose firearms, police records show.

The BCPO also topped the list for the highest percentage of arrests of wanted persons, based on the total number for each city or provincial police office.

Senior Supt. Edgardo Ordaniel, BCPO acting city director, is expected to receive the award from Chief Supt. Josephus Angan.*SGG

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