POLICE FILES

BANK COLLECTOR ROBBED

A BANK collector said he was robbed at gunpoint in barangay Dawis Norte, Carmen town, northern Cebu.

Neil Cleint Barcenas, 25, collector of Katipunan Bank, said P50,000 cash was taken from him by two motorcycle-riding robbers.

Barcenas said the robbery occurred shortly after he made a round of collection past 11 a.m. on Thursday.

Barcenas had just left the house of a client and was heading to his motorcycle when two men on a motorcycle arrived.

The backrider approached Barcenas, poked a gun at him and declared a hold-up.

Barcenas said the robber took his shoulder bag which contained the cash.

The robbers fled toward Danao City, said police.

Police said the robbers rode a black Honda motorcycle which didn’t have a plate number./REPORTER RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL

WIDOWER HANGS SELF

A 67-YEAR-OLD widower was found hanging dead in his parents’ house in barangay Ocaña, Carcar City, southern Cebu.

Police said family problems may have driven Romeo Barredo Sr. to kill himself.

Police said Romeo was last seen alive going to the toilet at midnight last Thursday.

Romeo’s older sister Susan asked her son Lord to check on the man when after several minutes, her brother still didn’t go out of the toilet.

When Romeo didn’t respond, Lord forcibly opened the door and found Romeo suspended from the ceiling with a nylon rope tied around his neck.

PO1 Alvin Torres of the Carcar police said there were no signs of foul play in man’s death./REPORTER RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL

WOMAN FALLS PREY TO SWINDLERS

A 21-YEAR-OLD woman lost a mobile phone, an ATM card and cash to swindlers yesterday noon in barangay Basak, Lapu-lapu City.

Jocelyn Ferater told police that she was walking along the road when she met a woman who asked for help where she can rent a truck. The woman claimed she is from Mindanao.

While they were talking, a man who passed by them offered to help the woman. The man told the woman not to bring cash or valuables.

The woman asked Ferrater to keep the money that she placed in a black sock. So that Ferrater will not run with her money, she asked for Ferrater’s cellular phone worth P7,000, her ATM card and P1,800 cash.

The two told Ferrater to wait for them but after almost an hour, no one came back. This time, Ferrater realized that she has been swindled.

She checked the sock and found a bundle of paper cut in money size./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA