METROBRIEFS
Woman, BF, pal thwart snatchers on bike
TWO ROBBERY suspects landed in jail after a foiled attempt to snatch a bag from a woman in Pasay City late Tuesday night. PO3 Melvin Garcia of the Pasay police said the intended victim, Angelica Brocka, put up a fight when Adonis Durante and Marty Nañez, then on a black motorcycle, tried to grab her bag as she was walking along Buendia with two male companions. Brocka and her boyfriend Michael Calaam were able get hold of Durante and forced him off the bike, while their friend Joshua Ricolo Gomez hurled a rock at Nañez before the latter could pull out a gun.
Durante was turned over to the Pasay police while Nañez, who managed to flee on the bike that night, was arrested the following day at his house on Kamalunggay Street, Western Bicutan, Taguig City. Noli A. Ermitanio
Young nurse hangs self inside closet
A 23-YEAR-OLD nurse apparently took her own life at her home in Barangay Masagana, Quezon City, on Thursday, police said. Eufrocina Amor Agustin was found by her father hanging—with a blanket noosed around her neck—and with cuts on her right wrist inside her bedroom closet around 6:10 a.m. Investigators learned from the family that the victim had a fight with her boyfriend the previous night.
Insp. Elmer Monsalve, homicide section chief of the Quezon City Police District, also said the nurse was hired just last month at Quirino Memorial Medical Center. Julie M. Aurelio
Samar ‘chop-chop’ suspect nabbed in QC
A MAN wanted in Northern Samar province for allegedly killing a fisherman and chopping up the body last year was arrested in Barangay Bago Bantay, Quezon City, Wednesday afternoon. Valentino Amante, 21, was arrested on an arrest warrant issued by a judge in Northern Samar. Quezon City Police District deputy director for administration Senior Supt. Joel Pagdilao said the suspect had been in hiding in Metro Manila after being tagged in the murder and mutilation of Roleto Diaz, a fisherman. Amante worked as a construction worker while in Quezon City and sought refuge among his relatives. QCPD-Masambong station commander Supt. Pedro Sanchez said Judge Norma Megenio Cardenas of the Northern Samar Regional Trial Court Branch 19 ordered the suspect’s arrest for the Feb. 12, 2012, murder in Barangay Makiwalo, Mondragon town. Another suspect, Amante’s brother Embong, remained at large. Pagdilao said the brothers were reportedly drunk when they stabbed the victim, chopped up his body and placed it inside a plastic bag before throwing it away. Julie M. Aurelio
Shot in handcuffs, dumped on QC road
A MAN in handcuffs was found dead on the roadside in Quezon City early Thursday. Police identified the victim as Rioljed Culala, a 32-year-old house painter, who bore several gunshot wounds when found along Abriz Ninadas Street in Barangay Commonwealth. A man who was attending a wake in the neighborhood reported hearing gunshots and seeing at least four other men on motorcycles at the dimly lit section of the road shortly before Culala’s body was discovered around 2 a.m. SPO1 Pascual Fabreag said seven .45-cal. bullet casings were recovered at the scene. Julie M. Aurelio
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