THE Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT)-Cebu City will soon have a new office. Senior Supt. Mariano Natu-el Jr., chief of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), the new office will be built on a vacant lot at the back of CCPO which is being used as a parking space for seized vehicles.
A DUMP TRUCK carrying limestones last night fell off the Marcelo Fernan Bridge in Mandaue City after its wheel axle got detached.
THE body of an unidentified man was found floating in the waters of barangay South Poblacion, southern Cebu. Police said no one from the place was able to identify the man believed to be in his 50s.
CASH and valuables amounting to P250,000 were stolen when a house and five apartments rooms were burgled in Mandaue City. Police said unidentified thieves broke into the house owned by Rica de Jesus in Gentle Breeze Subdivision in barangay Subangdaku, Mandaue.
A 26-YEAR-OLD man was arrested for possession of 35 grams of shabu amounting to almost half million after he was caught in a checkpoint in J.P. Rizal Street, barangay Basak, Mandaue city last Tuesday night.
A 26-YEAR-OLD fraternity member was fatally shot while he was sleeping on top of a table outside his house in barangay Pusok, Lapu-Lapu City.
A TAXI driver was injured after he resisted a robber who held him up in barangay Agus, Lapu-Lapu City. Regino Briones of barangay Guiwanon, Compostela town, Cebu sustained stab wounds in the neck and other parts of the body. The victim was a driver of Sheena taxi. Briones told police that a man flagged him down in Mandaue City past 9 p.m. Monday and asked to brought to Agus.
A 34-YEAR-OLD pedicab driver was fatally stabbed by a drunk man in barangay Poblacion, Compostela town, north Cebu. Police said Joseph Rolly Castro Sanchez was sleeping in his pedicab when he was allegedly stabbed by Rony Lowatlati Alegria, 34, past midnight yesterday.
A 20-YEAR-OLD man was arrested after he was allegedly caught having a pot session with his friends in his house in barangay Banilad, Mandaue City.
A 15-YEAR-OLD boy drowned while fishing with friends in the waters off the South Road Properties in Cebu City. The body of Joemar Ylaya was found floating off the shore of barangay Inayawan past 5 a.m. yesterday.
Former world soccer vice president Jack Warner wants to stop the release of crime reports and statistics in his capacity as Trinidad’s national security minister, saying that publicizing such information encourages people to commit more crime.
UNFINISHED firearms were seized in a shanty in barangay Sabang, Danao City, northern Cebu. No one was arrested when Danao City policemen made the confiscation around 2 p.m. last Monday.
THE Iranian national accused of estafa and carnapping is no longer in Cebu, said police. Based on records of the Bureau of Immigration, Hamid Reza Seife Pour left for Iran with his Filipina wife last Saturday, said Chief Insp Michael Bastes, chief of the Investigation and Detection Management Branch (IDMB) in Mandaue City.
