POLICE FILES

RAPE SUSPECT FALLS

A RAPE suspect was arrested in barangay Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City.

Edgar Padoga, 40, was charged with nine counts of rape.

Padoga and another man were accused of repeatedly raping a high school student last year. The other suspect, Dioscoro Igoy, a trisikad driver, was arrested in February 13.

Padoga went into hiding after the alleged rape was reported to the police.

A warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Anna Marie Militante of Branch 59 was used in the arrests.

Police said it was only last Tuesday morning when they received reports that Padoga was spotted in his store.

Police acted on the tip that led to Padoga’s arrest.

The victim told police that she was first raped in February 2012 while she was walking home.

The girl said the two suspects forced her to ride a trisikad and brought her to a grassy area where she was attacked.

The girl alleged that the two suspects threatened to kill her and her parents if she report to authorities

The girl said the abuse happened again in April and then repeated in October.

It was then that the girl finally reported to her parents./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA

COPS PROBE STORE ROBBERY

FORMER workers will be asked to shed light in the robbery of a Korean-owned convenience store in barangay Mabolo, Cebu City.

Some workers were dismissed a few days before ASSI Mart in the corner of F. Cabahug and J. Luna Streets, was robbed past 3 a.m. Wednesday.

Senior Supt. Mariano Natu-el, chief of the Cebu City Police, clarified that there is no evidence yet that would implicate the store’s former workers in the robbery.

Three men who posed as customers disarmed the store’s security guard and locked him and two workers inside a comfort room.

The robbers took at least P100,000 in proceeds and commandeered the store’s freezer van.

The police are coordinating with the Land Transportation Office to locate the freezer van with plate number LJN-113./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON