DIESEL TANKER SEIZED
A TANKER loaded with diesel oil is the subject of seizure by the Cebu Customs after the captain failed to show papers for drums of fuel on board the ship.
The tanker MT Petronilo 1 was inspected following an intelligence report from Manila that it was involved in fuel pilferage of motor tugboat Buleleng, an Indonesian-based and registered boat that towed a barge carrying coal from Indonesia to Apo Cement Corp. in Naga City.
Fuel samples were taken and sent to the Coast Guard central office in Manila for oil matching.
Cebu Customs Collector Ronnie Silvestre signed a warrant of seizure and detention against the Cebu-based tanker.
MT Petronilo 1 was held by the Cebu Coast Guard at the Labogon wharf in Mandaue City last Monday night.
Lawyer James Dy Buco, BOC legal division head, said Captain Manolo Arawe failed to present documents for the 3,005 liters of diesel fuel found in the tanker or explain where the diesel came from./CORRESPONDENT JHUNNEX NAPALLACAN
WOMAN KILLED
A WOMAN was shot dead by a motorcycle-riding assailant in barangay Tejero, Cebu City, yesterday.
Lea Montebon was shot in front of her house while she and her live-in partner were about to buy food, police said.
Montebon suffered gunshot wounds in the chest and abdomen.
Investigators found illegal drug paraphernalia inside the woman’s house, said PO2 Nilo Aventurado of the Cebu City Police Office.
The victim’s partner identified only as Negro, who has yet to surface after the attack, was arrested last week by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7). /CORRESPONDENTS GABRIEL C. BONJOC AND CHITO O. ARAGON