POLICE FILES

CABBIE ROBBED

A TAXI driver was held up by his passenger and lost P2,100 of his day’s earnings when the cab was in barangay Bulacao, Talisay City, southern Cebu.

Ireneo Nacua, 39, driver of Keven Mitz Taxi said a man with two female companions asked to be brought to barangay Tabunok.

On their way there, the man poked a pistol at him and declared a hold-up.

Police said the robbers got off the taxi after taking the driver’s money./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC

POLICE SECURE WOMAN

POLICE are securing the Japanese woman who accused two Koreans of raping her and her Japanese friend in a motel in Lapu-Lapu City.

Supt. Jose Pante, chief of the Criminal Investigation Detection Group in Central Visayas (CIDG-7), said they immediately checked on the Japanese after they received reports that two unidentified women carrying packages recently went to the woman’s house.

Pante said the CIDG-7 are looking for another place where the woman could stay to avoid attempts to harass her.

One of the Japanese complainants, a tourist, already returned to Japan.

Innocencio Dela Cerna, legal counsel of CIDG-7, said he may file a motion for reinvestigation after the prosecutors’ office downgraded the rape charges to sexual assault against Jong Duk Lee, one of the suspects.

Lee and Carl Park, 21, both denied that they raped the two Japanese women in the motel where the four occupied one room./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON