POLICE FILES

PACKS OF CIGARETTES SEIZED

REAMS of cigarettes and dried tobacco leaves were seized in a surprise inspection at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC).

The 10 reams of cigarettes and 258 dried tobacco leaves were burned yesterday.

Inmates are not allowed smoke inside their cells, said Napoleon Miranda, acting warden of CPDRC but 70 to 80 percent of the inmates are smokers.

Last March 11, jail officers seized 2,120 packs of assorted cigarettes worth at least P19,000.

Miranda said there was a report that the packs were thrown into the cell by a boy from the back of the facility.

Miranda said it was possible that the boy was ordered to deliver the cigarettes.

Miranda said security measures will be tightened since the number of seized cigarettes and marijuana were alarming.

Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia is strict in implementing the rules and regulations of the CPDRC, said Miranda.

“There are almost 200 detention cells (in CPDRC). We are doing a head count every shift.” Miranda said in Cebuano./CORRESPONDENT RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL

6 MEN NABBED FOR CUTTING TREES

SIX men were arrested for cutting trees in a private lot in barangay Campusong, Borbon town, northern Cebu.

The men, all residents of the barangay, were cited for violation of Presidential Decree 705 otherwise known as the Forestry Reform Code of the Philippines.

A security guard caught the six men cutting down Gmelena and sineguelas fruit trees with bolos in a lot owned by M. Lhullier Land.

The men told police that a certain Ramon Branzuela ordered them to cut the trees to make charcoal.

Police failed to locate Branzuela.

They confiscated four bolos, an axe and assorted forest trees.

The men were detained at the Borbon police station pending the filing of charges against them./UP MASS COMM INTERN JOSE SANTINO S. BUNACHITA

GERMAN’S HOUSE IN TALISAY BURGLARIZED

CLOSE to P150,000 in cash and valuables were stolen from the house of a German national in barangay Cansojong, Talisay City.

Peter Raddatz, 47, said he was sleeping when burglars struck at dawn yesterday.

The burglars climbed the fence then entered through a window at the terrace.

The foreigner said household members were awakened by a loud sound and they were shocked to see the things in the master’s bedroom and his daughter’s room in disarray.

Missing items included a laptop, two Netbooks, four cell phones, P900 cash, and pieces of jewelry.

SPO4 Daniel Tarucan of the Talisay City police said an operation to arrest the burglars is ongoing./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC