Police files

JAPANESE FOUND DEAD AT HOME

A JAPANESE national was found dead in his rented house in a subdivision in barangay Agus, Lapu-Lapu City.

Police will conduct further investigation to find out if Takao Ukena, 76, was murdered or if he committed suicide.

Ukena, a native of Osaka, Japan, was found with an electrical cord tied around his neck and had an open wound in the forehead when he was found by a house help on top of his bed past 7 a.m. yesterday.

Police said there were no signs of struggle in the victim’s room since the things inside the victim’s were in order.

House help Marily Paracuelis, 25, and her husband, Rolly, 28, told police that they last saw the Japanese alive around 7 p.m. last Monday.

Marily told police she went to the victim’s room to get his soiled clothes.

The woman said they repeatedly knocked on the door but Ukena did not respond.

Marily said they opened the door using a duplicate key and was shocked to see the bloodied Japanese.

Insp. Juan Capacio, chief of the Mandaue police Station 4, said investigators could not determine yet if there was foul play involved pending the release of the autopsy result.

Police are still checking if there are some belongings owned by the Japanese that are missing./REPORTER JUCELL MARIE P. CUYOS

SLAY SUSPECT FALLS

A SUSPECT in the killing of a head guard of a subdivision in Talisay City City, southern Cebu, was arrested last Monday night.

Reynaldo Villas, 31, was arrested in sitio Bliss, barangay Lawaan, based on a warrant of arrest issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Sylva G. Aggueire-Paderanga of Branch 16.

Villas was one of the two men tagged as suspects in the killing of Rolly Rodrigo, who was shot by motorcycle-riding assailants in an intersection at the South Road Properties in barangay Lawaaan 1 last December 2010.

Senior Supt. Patrocinio Comendador Jr., chief of the Cebu provincial police, said Villas was a gun-for-hire.

Villas denied the allegation.

Police said the killing of Rodrigo was believed to be an offshoot of the conflict between two groups of homeowners at the Alpha Executive Homes subdivision where the guard was assigned.

A daughter of the victim tagged Bensing Raguindin, a former president of the subdivision’s homeowners group, as the mastermind in the killing.
Raguindin denied the allegation.

No charges have been filed against Raguindin./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC