Police files

MAN NABBED FOR MAULING WIFE

POLICE arrested a man who mauled his wife inside their house in barangay Lawaan 3, Talisay City, southern Cebu, last Tuesday night.

Police said William Canillo, 42, repeatedly hit his wife with an iron bar after he was asked to stop texting a woman he was seeing.

Police rushed to the house after receiving a report about the domestic violence and rescued the woman, who was brought to the Talisay District Hospital for treatment, said Insp. Margeneatte Yosores, chief of the Women and Children’s Office of the Talisay City police, Canillo was detained pending the filing of charges against him, said police./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC

WOMAN STABBED AT LAPU HOME

A 25-YEAR-OLD woman was stabbed in the breast by her neighbor in barangay Marigondon, Lapu-Lapu City, on Tuesday night.

Amelita Amodia told police that the attack caught her by surprise because she had no previous quarrel with the assailant, Ryan Cubiaran, 27.

Police said Amodia was lying on a bench watching television at home when the man barged in and stabbed her.

The suspect fled after the attack, while Amodia was rushed the Mactan Doctors’ Hospital./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA

MORE COPS in CEBU

THE lack of policemen in Cebu province will soon be addressed when more police officers will be deployed on December.

The shortage of policemen was one of the administrative matters discussed when Chief Supt. Ager Ontog, chief of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas, visited Cebu Gov. Gwen Garcia last Monday.

Ontog said the extra policemen to be assigned in Cebu are new police recruits who will be graduating this December.

Ontog said Cebu recently got 50 more policemen and it’s up to the Cebu Provincial Police Office where to assign them.

Today, the CPPO is set to receive two scene of the crime operation (SOCO) Kia vans donated by the Capitol.

The vans are equipped with finger print kits and other crime scene investigation tools./CORRESPONDENT CARMEL LOISE MATUS

PHILPOST WORKER FACES 500 CASES

AT LEAST 500 cases were filed in court against a worker of the Philippine Postal Corp. for failing to deliver several letters.

Edwin Genson, a contract service worker, was indicted by the Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas on charges of “infidelity in the custody of documents,” a violation of article 226 of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines.

Several complaints were earlier lodged against the postal delivery worker.

Genson was held liable for “destroying and concealing” letters under his custody in 2004.

The charges against Genson are pending before the Municipal Trial Court in Cities in Cebu City./REPORTER ADOR VINCENT S. MAYOL

STRAY BULLET HITS COP

AN off-duty policemen was injured after he was hit by a stray bullet in the right knee yesterday dawn.

PO1 Marc Eldie Meñoza was driving a motorcycle in barangay Tabunok, Talisay City, when he was shot.

Police said the bullet came from a gun fired by a backrider of another motorcycle from the opposite lane.

The real target was reportedly another man on another motorbike with his girlfriend.

The assailants were three unidentified men, one of whom fired at the driver but missed.

The couple crashed into a post. They later sped off and did not report the incident to the police.

The policeman drove himself to the Talisay District Hospital./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC