LEGAZPI CITY –– Police arrested 17 persons, five of them minors, for violating the curfew in separate enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) operations on Wednesday night in the towns of Polangui and Rapu-rapu in Albay province.
The police report said the suspects were arrested during police ECQ patrols implementing the eight-hour curfew in place against the spread of coronavirus in barangays Sugcad, Gabon, and Ponso at 9:50 p.m. in Polangui town and Barangay Poblacion in the island town of Rapu-rapu.
In Polangui, the suspects caught loitering in the vicinity of their respective barangays were Dennis Sepulvida, 46, and Nestor Leoncito of Ponso; Kevin Bernaldez, 25, Bernard Corteza, 20, Andy Manalo, 19, and Marlon Almojano, 36, all of Gabon; and Rogie Edward Mora, 32, of Sugcad.
Meanwhile, the five minors were turned over to their respective parents.
In Barangay Poblacion, police arrested around 10 p.m. Marwin Echalas, 18; Enrico Vibal, 25; Jerom Canada, 20; Jaymark de la Cruz, 20; and John Erwin Albaniel, 19.