Police Files

DEAD MAN FOUND IN MOTEL

A 75-YEAR-OLD man was found dead in a motel at the North Reclamation Area, Cebu City, last Monday night.

Police said Liberato Gilig was found slumped on a stairway leading to a room.  He had no  had no external injuries.

The body was found by Welmer Cenas,  supervisor of the motel.

Cenas told police that Gilig checked in at the motel around 3:30 p.m. with an unidentified woman. The woman was nowhere to be found when the body was found.

Police said the body will be autopsied to determine the cause of death./CORRESPONDENT RHEA ROSELL V. ROSELL

FARMER GUNNED DOWN

A 74-YEAR-OLD farmer was shot dead by four unidentified gunmen in the mountain barangay of Canbuinucot, Cebu City, yesterday.

Felipe Archival,  owner of a six-hectare coconut and mango tree plantation, succumbed to three gunshot wounds.

His  son, Nelson, told police that before the shooting, he and his father were fixing the fence of their copra dryer.

Nelson said he left his father to eat.

Nelson said he later heard bursts of gunfire and  found his father slumped on the ground.

Witnesses told police that the gunmen covered their faces with cloth.

Nelson told police that his father had no known enemy in the barangay.

The killing will be investigated further, said police./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON

WOUNDED COP TAKING EXTRA CARE

SUSPICIOUS-looking persons were  spotted near the house of the policeman who was wounded in the foiled robbery of an armored van at the Robinsons Mall last Sept. 5.

PO1 Roy Ceniza said he and his family are taking extra care because of the report.

Ceniza said that he was tipped off by neighbors that unidentified men were seen roaming around his house in barangay Talamban at  night.

Ceniza said he considers the threat part of his job as policeman.  Ceniza was the one who shot Junjun Cabando, one of the robbery gang members,  in the buttocks. Cabando remains at large.

The foiled heist was pulled by a  robbery gang from Ozamiz City.  /CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON