2 ARMED MEN COLLARED IN DANAO
POLICE arrested two men caught carrying firearms in barangay Poblacion, Danao City, northern Cebu.
Police said a .357 revolver with six bullets was seized Ronald Tejero, 36, while a .45 pistol was recovered from Eldebrando Mayol, 41.
Police said the two men failed to prove that the seized guns were licensed.
PO1 Faron Abela said that a concerned citizen called the Danao City police precinct around 6 p.m. last Saturday to reports the presence of two suspicious-looking men standing in front of a store on Juan Luna Street.
Abela said when policemen arrived in the area, the two men tried to draw their guns but were subdued.
Tejero and Mayol were detained at the Danao City police station pending the filing of charges against them. /CORRESPONDENT RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL
VILLAGE CHIEF, TANODS CLEARED
THE Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas dismissed the charges filed against the chieftain and two tanods of barangay Uling, Naga City accused of shooting a man.
The anti-graft office found no probable cause to indict Justino Dakay as well as barangay tanods Felecisimo Quimada and Rodrigo Seldas on charges of frustrated murder and illegal possession of firearms.
The issue stemmed from the complaint of Junrey Gabuya who accused the three men of shooting him last July 1, 2010.
Gabuya said he was urinating outside his house when he saw the respondents armed with handguns.
The complainant ran but he was allegedly shot in the left arm.
Gabuya, however, managed to escape.
In his counter-affidavit, the barangay captain said the complainant is facing robbery charges in court and was the subject of an arrest warrant issued by a court.
He said Gabuya tried to escape and fired shots at them. /REPORTER ADOR VINCENT S. MAYOL
2 HURT IN CEBU CITY SHOOTINGS
A 32-YEAR-OLD man and a teenager were wounded in separate shooting incidents in Cebu City last Saturday night.
The motive behind the shootings has not been established yet, said police.
Paul Timothy So was driving a motorcycle on his way home around 7 p.m. when he was shot by two men riding a motorcycle in Queens Road, barangay Camputhaw.
So fell from the motorcycle after he was hit in the back.
A witness told police that the assailants parked their motorcycle at the side of the road and waited for the victim to pass by.
The assailants fled toward F. Manalo Street. So was brought to a Cebu City hospital.
Police recovered three empty shells and a deformed slug of a .45 pistol in the crime scene.
An hour later, a 16-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded by an unidentified person while sitting on a wooden bench in front of a chapel sitio Centro Alaska, barangay Mambaling.
The boy sustained gunshot wounds in the head, stomach and back. /CORRESPONDENT RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL