Police files

IRANIAN FACES ESTAFA CASE

AN Iranian national was accused of non-payment of debt and not returning a car owned by a rent-a-car shop in Cebu City.

Police said an operation to locate lHamid Reza Seifi Pour, 40, is ongoing.

The Iranian was identified though his driver’s license.

Police said the foreigner had been using several addresses.

One of the four complainants businesmman Vladimir Shubov, a Russian-American national, filed a charge of estafa against Pour.

Pour and his Filipina wife were previously charged for large-scale estafa at the city prosecutor’s office, said Shubov, a retired software designer.

Shubov said Pour owed P1.4 million from him.

Shubow said the Iranian started hiding when he asked him to pay his debt.

Jerome Florita, a caretaker of the car dealer shop in barangay Guadalupe, accused Pour of not returning a Honda Jazz car after he used it for a road test last Sept. 21.

Shubov said he met Pour last in a gym of an uptown hotel. Shubov said they became friends until the Iranian borrowed $10,000 from him.

Shubov said the Iranian borrowed additional cash which he said was used for his buying and selling of gold.

Shubov said Pour paid his previous debts but started hiding when he last borrowed P1.4 million from him./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON

P93T LOST IN DANAO ROBBERY

AT least P93,000 cash was stolen when a salesclerk of a cell phone store was robbed at gunpoint in barangay Poblacion, Danao City, northern Cebu.

Cate Freglo, 24, a salesclerk of Booming Marketing, told police that she was on board a trisikad to deposit the money when a lone robber waylaid her past 1 p.m. last Monday.

The robbery happened about 300 meters from the bank, said police.

Freglo said the trisikad was moving slowly because of traffic when an unidentified man suddenly boarded the trisikad.

Freglo said the man pointed a gun at her and declared a hold-up. The woman said that due to fear, she was forced to hand over the brown bag containing the money which was part of the store’s proceeds.

Police said Freglo was able to identify the robber in the rogue gallery. Police withheld the name of the robber pending operations to arrest him.

In barangay Banilad, Mandaue City, a cashier of a bakeshop was also robbed at gunpoint at dawn yesterday.

Jessa Bontilao, 21, told police that she was wiping the tables outside the bakeshop when a man pointed a gun at her and demanded money.

The cashier said the robber fled with P2,000 cash./REPORTER RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL AND CORRESPONDENT JUCELL MARIE P. CUYOS

GUARD SLASHES WRIST

A 34-YEAR-OLD security guard slashed his right wrist after he and his wife argued at home in barangay Lawaan 2, Talisay City, southern Cebu.

Nicolas Manto and his wife Angie argued when the woman caught him having a female textmate yesterday morning.

Police said the woman pretended that she was Manto and sent text messages to her husband’s female textmate.

Police said Angie left home after the fight when she heard a gunshot. The woman rushed back to their house and found her husband with minor slash wounds.

The couple was brought to the police station but later went home after settling their differences./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC