Police Files

Burglary

Thieves broke into an auto parts shop in barangay Tipolo, Mandaue City yesterday and fled with at least P200,000 cash.

Paraluna Kyamko, the store manager of Saudz Extreme Auto Supply, discovered the burglary when he reported for work at 8 a.m. yesterday.

Investigation showed that the thieves entered the shop by cutting the metal lock of the sliding door.

The thieves destroyed another door leading to the steel drawer containing the money.

Police said the shop had no security cameras.

Police were still investigating the theft./Reporter Jucell Mari P. Cuyos

Shot in the head

A jeepney driver is in critical condition after he was shot in the head by one of his passengers yesterday morning in baranday Day-as, Cebu City.

Ritchie Repunte, 31, of Upper Centro, barangay Talamban, stopped at a stop light at the corner of Sikatuna and P. Del Rosario Streets when his assailant moved nearer and shot him.

The assailant casually alighted from the jeepney and fled towards  Day-as.

Responding policemen brought the victim to the hospital while the assailant escaped.

Police were looking into allegations from the victim’s partner that last Sunday night, the victim had a fight with a PUJ conductor./Correspondent Chito O. Aragon

Stabbed dead

A 44-year-old man was stabbed dead after his neighbor allegedly caught him peeping in the bathroom where his  wife was taking a bath in barangay Sangi, Toledo City last Sunday.

Agustin Cañada died after he was stabbed in the chest  by his neighbor Alfred Flores.

Police investigation showed that Flores,  a tricycle driver, arrived home and caught Canada peeping inside the bathroom.

Police said Flores took a knife and attacked Canada.

Flores fled after the attack./Correspondent Gabriel C. Bonjoc

Nabbed

Police arrested a son of a policeman for attempted homicide in barangay Ermita, Cebu City last Sunday.

Roswell Pogoy, 28, of barangay Ermita was also caught with two big packs of suspected shabu worth at least P50,000 and a .45 caliber pistol when he was arrested.

Police were armed with an arrest warrant for the frustrated homicide case issued by Judge Charina G. Navarro-Quijano of Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) in Cebu City.

Pogoy however denied owning the suspected shabu and the gun. He’s detained at the Carbon Police Station pending the filing of charges. /Correspondent Chito O. Aragon