Police Files
Caught stealing
A SECURITY guard and his companion were arrested by police after they were accused of stealing a company’s surplus items at their office in UN Avenue, barangay Alang-Alang in Mandaue City at past 1 p.m last Sunday.
The 34-year-old suspect identified as Jerry Candido, a resident of Consolacion town is detained at the Centro police precinct in Mandaue City after one of the company’s representatives filed a complaint of theft against him.
Candido was reportedly caught by a staffer of Sharman’s Surplus Co. stealing an electric guitar. During the interrogation, Candido admitted that several items were sold to a certain Rogelio Cartaginas of Consolacion town.
Recovered from Cartaginas’s house were 16 speakers, an electric guitar worth more than P10,000. A refrigerator had yet to be recovered. Theft and anti-fencing charges will be filed against Candido and Cartaginas respectively./Correspondent Norman V. Mendoza
Toledo shooting
Article continues after this advertisementA 59-year-old barangay tanod and his 39-year-old companion were shot after trying to pacify a fight between an unidentified couple in sitio Dao, Tubod, Toledo City.
Article continues after this advertisementBarangay tanod Felix Villacencio and Simon Linihan were shot in the thighs by an unidentified assailant.
Police said both victims tried to pacify an couple who were fighting. The man, however, pulled out a gun and shot them when they tried to intervene.
The couple fled after the incident. /Intern Argie Mae C. Lodovica
Bulacao suicide
A man was found dead hanging by the neck on the beam of their house at 4 a.m. yesterday.
Leonidez Tabura Padigos, a 52-year-old resident of sitio Cabangkalan 1, Barangay Bulacao in Cebu City was found dead by his son hanging with a nylon rope tied around his neck to the wooden beam of their house.
His son and his son’s wife brought his body down and tried to revive Padigos to no avail.
Police said the victim had a drinking session with his two sons on Sunday night. He slept at about 1 a.m.
His sons told police that their father would oftentimes try to commit suicide whenever he was drunk.
Police found no sign of foul play in the death. /Intern Argie Mae C. Lodovica
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