LAWYER’S CAR CATCHES FIRE
A SEDAN with an overheated engine caught fire in barangay Pajo, Lapu-Lapu City but the driver, lawyer Ted Belarmia, escaped unhurt.
He was driving along M.L. Quezon Highway past 11 a.m. on Friday when smoke and then sparks came out from under the hood of his Kia Pride.
Belarmia hurriedly got out and used water from a passing water tanker of the Lapu-Lapu city government to douse the flames.
An overheated engine was the cause of the fire, said FO2 Climaco Salisid.
The water tanker was parked on the road for watering plants in the center island of the highway./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA
TRIKE DRIVER STABBED
A 35-YEAR-OLD trisikad driver was stabbed in the back and wounded by his neighbor in barangay Buaya, Lapu-Lapu City.
Bengir Garcia identified his attacker as a certain Mata, who fled after last Friday’s night incident.
A personal grudge was the motive in the attack, said police.
Garcia said he earlier accused Mata as the one who burglarized his house in sitio Saac 1 last week.
Garcia was buying cigarettes in a sari-sari store when Mata stabbed him with a knife.
Garcia was later brought to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA
FIRM MANAGER RELEASED
THE manager of a visa processing company accused of illegal recruitment was released after the complainant refused to pursue the case.
Christian Ramos Lopez, 28, manager of Global Visas, was released after the complainant, Annaliza Baldecir executed an affidavit of desistance, said Chief Insp. Bonifacio Garciano, chief of the Investigation and Detective Management Branch (IDMB).
Police said Baldicer withdrew the case after the company returned the P100,000 that she paid for her application to work abroad.
Lopez was arrested last Wednesday in an entrapment operation in his office at Dyno Building at the corner of Llorente and Juana Osmena Streets, Cebu City.
Baldecir sought help of the police when the company failed to fullfil its promise to find her a job abroad.
She spent P100,00 for her application.
The company denied it was involved in illegal recruitment, saying it was just engaged in processing of tourist and fiancee visas./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON