Police files

MAN KILLED IN CEBU CITY

A 35-YEAR-OLD man was shot dead by two unidentified men at past midnight yesterday in barangay Mambaling, Cebu City.

Ronald Precillas Abellanosa succumbed to four gunshot wounds in the body.

Chief Insp. Sara Jean Recla, chief of the homicide section of the Cebu City police, said investigators are looking into illegal drugs as a possible motive of the killing.

Police said the man was shot while playing a card game with neighbors.

They said the assailants hid behind a bamboo fence when they shot the victim.

At least four empty shells and four deformed slugs of a .45 pistol were recovered from the crime scene./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON

ROBBERS ON TRICYCLE STRIKE

WITH police strictly monitoring hoodlums riding in tandem on motorcycles, robbers in Talisay City have shifted to using tricycles in carrying out crimes.

Police said three unidentified men robbed a 16-year-old boy of his cellphone in barangay Poblacion last Monday night.

Police said the boy was walking on Uldog Street when a tricycle stopped in front of him.

Two men got off the tricycle and pointed a knife at the boy.

He said the robbers took his cell phone worth P1,700 since he had no money at the time.

The robbers returned to the tricycle and fled./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC

POLICE APPLICANTS CRY FOUL

AT LEAST five police applicants complained of favoritism after they were prohibited from undergoing a neuro-psychiatric test.

The applicants, who asked not to be named, said they were told that only 200 applicants would be allowed to undergo the test since only 165 would be accepted.

The applicants said they were told to forego the test even if they passed the previous tests.

The neuro-examination is one of the tests that an applicant has to go through.

Senior Supt, Patroneli Baldebrin, chief of the regional human resource development of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), denied that there’s favoritism in the recruitment process.

He said there were more than 400 applicants and the most qualified applicants including the criminologists, were allowed to take the neuro-test since only 167 new police recruits would be needed by PRO-7.

Baldebrin saod those who were not accepted could reapply for the next recruitment./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON

LABORER NABBED FOR BURGLARY

A CONSTRUCTION worker was arrested for allegedly burglarizing a house in barangay Paknaan, Mandaue City.

Jerson Dagwayan, 25, a resident of Minglanilla town, Cebu, was identified through the footprints found on the roof of a house owned by Carina Taclob.

Taclob’s house was burglarized last Monday morning where several gadgets worth more than P50,000 were taken.

Police said the burglar entered the house through a chimney.

Responding police found muddy footprints from the roof leading to a construction site where Dagwayan was one of the workers.

Police later discovered that the footprints on the roof matched Dagwayan’s foot. Dagwayan then admitted that he was behind the burglary.

Except for the iPhone, police recovered the stolen items from various people who bought the gadgets from the suspect./CORRESPONDENTS FE MARIE D. DUMABOC AND JUCELL MARIE P. CUYOS