Police Files
Banilad shooting
A security guard shot and killed his neighbor after he confronted the victim over allegations of the guard’s daughter that he peeped in the bathroom while she took a bath last Friday in their house in Upper Sampaguita, barangay Banilad, Mandaue City.
The guard Dionedy Salem said he shot Melvin Gonzales after he attacked him with a kitchen knife after he confronted him about the peeping incident last Sunday evening.
Police said Salem, 47, shot Melvin Gonzales, 32, in the stomach during the confrontation.
Gonzales was rushed to the hospital where he died a few hours later.
Salem surrendered to police. He was detained at the Casuntingan police station pending the filing of charges./Correspondent Jucell Marie P. Cuyos
Drug raids
Five men were arrested in two separate anti illegal drug operations in Toledo City in western Cebu and Consolacion town in northern Cebu.
On Saturday, Consolacion police arrested Orlando “Bandoy” Pepito, 24, and Rico Jamago, 40, from Camiguin in Mindanao during a buy-bust operation in sitio Manga, barangay Jupan, Consolacion town in northern Cebu.
Police seized 20 small packs believed to contain shabu from Pepito while 10 small packs of suspected shabu and four P500 bills from Jamago’s possession.
On Sunday, police caught two men believed to be level two drug pushers and their companion in separate raids in barangay Bato, Toledo City.
First to fall at 1 a.m. were Ben Ben “Tambok” Tubalado, 40, employee of Toledo City government Engineer department, and Roel Arquiza, 37. Police moved in when the two sold a pack believed to contain shabu to a decoy.
Seized from their possessions were three small packs and 20 medium-sized packs of suspected shabu worth P11,500.
A follow-up operation at 2 a.m. led to the arrest of Alexis Jumao-as Caricari, 41, a suspected level two drug pusher, when he sold a pack of suspected shabu worth P500 to a policeman who acted as a poseur buyer.
Caricari could dispose of more than 50 grams of shabu in a week, said Supt. Rodolfo Albotra, Jr, Chief of the Chief of the Cebu Provincial Police Office-Provincial Intelligence Branch./Correspondent Joy S. Quito
German found dead
A German man was found dead inside his rented apartment in barangay Lahug last Sunday afternoon.
Police said the caretakers of the rented apartment found the body of Mario Hasler, 47, in his bed.
Investigation showed that the apartment caretakers Cathy and Keneth Valiente earlier checked on the German who had gone to his room to sleep.
They became concerned after Hasler didn’t answer the door after they knocked several times. When they forcibly opened the door, they found the German already dead. They then informed tanods and police.
SPO1 Ruth Bongo Violango, Homicide Section chief, said there were no external injuries in the victim’s body suggesting no foul play happened. Violango, however, recommended that an autopsy be conducted on the German to determine the cause of his death./Correspondent Chito O. Aragon
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