POLICE FILES

Lapu shooting

A lone assailant shot dead a 15-year-old boy sleeping inside a parked passenger jeepney in barangay Gun-ob, Lapu-Lapu City, which was only 60 meters from the Lapu-Lapu Police Station 3 near Hoops Dome.

Jessie Aton was found dead at 5 a.m. when the jeepney owner Efren Montellano, 54, of sitio Kinalumsan, barangay Gun-ob arrived to use the vehicle.

Investigation showed that Montellano woke up the scavenger boys asking them to get off the vehicle because he would use it.

His companions tried to wake Aton but found him dead and bleeding with a wound in the head.

A witness, who slept in a nearby hut, told police that he heard a shot and a man on a motorcyclelater  sped off.

Police were still investigating the incident. Correspondent Norman V. Mendoza

Punta fire

ABOUT half a million pesos worth of properties were destroyed in a fire that hit a two-story house in F. Pacana Street, barangay Punta Princessa, Cebu City at 9:38 a.m yesterday.

Fire investigator said the fire wall of the house owned by Bert Leo Abella prevented the fire from spreading to other houses.

Nobody was hurt during the incident. Witnesses said they only heard a minor explosion before seeing the fire. Correspondent Chito Aragon

Laglag Barya

A 37-YEAR-OLD woman lost her money and cell phone to members of the so-called “Laglag Barya (loose change)” gang who rode with her in a passenger jeepney in barangay Dumlog, Talisay City last Friday afternoon.

Maryin Badayos Terpening  of Carmen Village in barangay Poblacion, Talisay City told police that the thieves took  her cell phone worth P4,200 and P7,400 cash placed inside her bag.

She said that one of the thieves intentionally dropped coins while his accomplice pushed her to the side when she tried to pick up the coins on the floor.

The diversion worked and she lost her cash and valuables to the thieves.

Also in Talisay City yesterday dawn, two men robbed two women in sitio Mananga, barangay Tabunok,

Ione Koncesvalles, 22, of Basak Pardo, Cebu City, and Gracelyn Tnu of barangay Mambaling, Cebu City lost their bags and cell phones to the robbers. Correspondent Gabriel C. Bonjoc

Girl picked up

Police picked up a 13-year-old girl, who was caught selling rugby to “rugby boys” in the Carbon area and turned her over to the women’s desk of the Cebu City Police Office.

Chief Insp. Romeo Santander, chief of the Cebu City Intelligence Branch, said that they would turn over the girl to her parents if they could find them.

Santander said they would warn the parents that they would be arrested if the girl would be caught again doing the illegal act.

However, if they couldn’t find the parents, then they would turn over the child to the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

Police said the girl told them that she earlier quit school and decided to sell rugby to boys who use rugby in the area. She said she would buy a bottle of rugby at a hardware store in the Colon area. She would then repack them in plastic packs that she would sell for P5 each.

She said she would earn P100 a day for selling rugby.

Yesterday’s drive was part of the police program to get minors off the streets. Correspondent Chito O. Aragon