MAN DROWNS OFF GINATILAN FALLS
A 26-YEAR-OLD man drowned while swimming in Inambakan Falls in barangay Calabawan, Ginatilan town, southern Cebu.
Police said Elbert Sirio Itao and his relatives went swimming past noon last Monday.
Edna Itao Teorica, 28, the victim’s older sister, told police that her 9-year-old son was with the victim when the accident occurred.
Teorica told police that she saw his brother shouting for help while her son was clinging on a rock.
Teorica said she just smiled at her brother, thinking that the man was just joking.
Teorica said they later noticed that her brother was missing.
Itao was later found submerged in the water. He was rushed to the town’s hospital where he was declared dead by attending physicians, said police./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC
3 HURT IN CEBU CITY STABBING
THREE men were wounded when a man went on a stabbing spree in barangay Mabolo, Cebu City, on Monday night.
Police identified the victims as cousins Allan Sinagan, 23, and Arnold Sinagan, 30, and Ben Marie Dimaunahan, a 30-year-old call center agent.
The three men suffered stab wounds in their bodies.
The suspect was identified as a certain Ekoy, who eluded arrest.
Police said the three victims were talking at the side of the road while the suspect was cleaning a parked vehicle across the road.
While the victims were talking, the suspect approached them and without a word attacked them with a knife, said police.
The suspect fled after the incident, while the victims were brought to a Cebu City hospital./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON
WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN LAPU
THE body of an unidentified woman was found in barangay Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City, early morning yesterday.
Police said the woman wore a white T-shirt, denim pants and slippers. The woman was described as fair-skinned and sporting long hair.
The woman was found with injuries in the neck.
An autopsy will be conducted to determine what caused the injuries, said SPO3 Jesus Jimenea, homicide investigator if the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office./REPORTER JUCELL MARIE P. CUYOS
HELD FOR STARFISH
POLICE briefly held three persons for transporting 13 sacks of starfish along the Mandaue Reclamation Area in barangay Subangdaku, Mandaue City, yesterday afternoon.
The sacks of starfish were found loaded in a multicab driven by Allan Labajo, 40. Each sack contained at least 400 starfish. Each starfish was sold for P1.
The owner of the cargoes, Diaga Aying, 50, told police they were about to deliver the sacks of starfish to Cebu City when the vehicle they were riding in bogged down.
Diaga and her companion Apolinarios Umpad, 54, also from barangay San Vicente on Olango Islando, were brought to the Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) when they failed to present documents authorizing them to transport the sacks of starfish.
Senior Insp. Rex Lomente, chief of the Investigation and Detection Management Branch (IDMB), said Aying and her companions were released after police, upon checking with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and Lapu-Lapu City government, found out that starfish is not considered an endangered specie and that there was no ordinance prohibiting the sale of starfish.
Aying said she has been selling starfish for 30 years. /REPORTER JUCELL MARIE P. CUYOS
MARIJUANA PLANTS UPROOTED
AT LEAST 200 fully grown marijuana plants were uprooted in barangay Gaas, Balamban town, western Cebu, last Monday afternoon.
The seized marijuana plants weighed around 10 kilos and could be sold for P5,000 per kilo, said Insp. Mark Gifter Sucalit of Provincial Intelligence Branch (PIB) of the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO). No one was arrested during the operation./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC