Police Files

COP NABBED

A POLICEMAN who is facing a frustrated murder charge was arrested inside the police precinct of San Fernando town, southern Cebu.

PO3 Leoncio Salubre was arrested by members of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Central Visayas based on the warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Soliver Peras.

Salubre was accused of shooting and wounding Jerson Granton in 2005.

Salubre denied the accusation against him.

Salubre said he was off-duty when he responded to an indiscriminate firing alarm.

The policeman said Granton was already wounded when he arrived in the area and saw Granton’s companion armed with a handgun.

Salubre said he identified himself as a policeman but he was shot instead.  Salubre said he returned fire but missed./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON

FORMER CABBIE KILLED

A FORMER taxi driver was shot dead by an unidentified gunman in front of his house in barangay Punta Princesa, Cebu City.

Jime Abella, 27, died on the spot with gunshot wounds in the head and body.

Police said Abella was about to enter his home when he was shot early morning yesterday.

A neighbor told police that an armed man wearing a blue T-shirt and holding a flashlight was seen hurriedly leaving near the crime scene after the bursts of gunfire./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON

3 MEN SHOT IN DANAO

THREE men were wounded after they were shot by unidentified assailants while they were having a drinking session in Lawaan, a mountain barangay in Danao City, northern Cebu.

Ronilo Giangan, 38, a farmer, Demetrio Matugas, 34, and Patricio Castro, 23, a habal-habal (motorcycle-for-hire) driver, were recuperating in a Cebu City hospital.

Police said the three men were having a videoke and drinking session in front of Giangan’s house in sitio Tagaytay when unidentified assailants peppered them with bullets.

Chief Insp. Ricky Delilis, Danao police chief, said they were checking reports that the three men were involved in several robberies in Danaoy. /REPORTER RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL