POLICE FILES

CELLPHONE THEFT IN MANDAUE

POLICE arrested a man who snatched a pedestrian’s cell phone in barangay Jagobiao, Mandaue City.

Ricky Villamor was positively identified by the victim, Marivic Plaza, 25, as the one who robbed her at gunpoint last Thursday night.

Villamor insisted he was innocent.

Plaza said she was standing in front of a store and using her cell phone when a motorcycle with two men on board arrived.

The backrider poked a gun at her and threatened to shoot her if she won’t give up her phone, she said.

They sped away with the mobile phone and the victim reported the robbery to the Basak police precinct.

Villamor was picked up in a follow-up operation and brought to the police precinct where he was positively identified by Plaza.

A .38 revolver with five live bullets and a vial of nubain were found in his possession, said Insp. Wilson Abot, chief of the Basak police, said

It was found out later that Villamor is a cousin of Ponciano Villamor who was arrested on Wednesday with Arnel Poras, after the two allegedly robbed two helpers the night before.

Police said the suspects were members of the Akrho fraternity and were linked to a series of robberies and motorcycle thefts in Mandaue, Cebu and Talisay cities and in Consolacion, Liloan and Compostela towns./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA

GERMAN HURT IN Mactan ROBBERY

A 34-YEAR-OLD German national was stabbed and wounded by a man who tried to rob him in barangay Pusok, Lapu-Lapu City.

Although wounded, Roman Paul Habler went straight to his rented house and refused to be brought to the hospital.

The German lives in barangay Sambag 2, Cebu City.

Hable told police that he was walking along a road in sitio Seaside around 3 a.m. last Friday on his way to the house of a friend.

He said an unidentified man suddenly stabbed him in the back and demanded money from him.

Habler resisted and was stabbed again in the abdomen.

Upon seeing a taxi approach them, the attacker ran away.

Habler flagged down the taxi and asked to be brought to his rented house in Urgello Street.

The foreigner did not report the robbery to the police.

Lapu-Lapu City homicide police investigators learned about the incident from a TV news report.

Police went to Habler’s house and advised him to seek medical treatment.

He refused to go, apparently to avoid expenses.

Habler’s landlord offered to pay for the medical treatment but Habler still refused.

PO3 Winston Ybañez said paramedics were called in to check the wounded German.

Ybañez said the German embassy will be informed of the incident./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA