BLASTED FISH SEIZED IN COMPOSTELA
AT LEAST 14 boxes of blasted “toloy” fish were seized yesterday in Compostela town, northern Cebu.
The boxes of fish worth P28,000 were loaded in a truck that came from Compostela town.
The fish may have came from Samar province, said Joeffrey Merencillo, coordinator of the Provincial Anti-Illegal Fishing Task Force.
Police said 48 boxes of fish were found in the truck but only 14 were tested positive for dynamite.
The fishes were examined by personnel of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.
The truck driver claimed he didn’t know the owner of fish cargo, said Merencillo.
Only the fish was confiscated, not the delivery truck. /CORRESPONDENT CARMEL LOISE M. MATUS
2 AIRPORT COPS POST BAIL
THE two airport police who figured in a shootout with a fellow policeman posted bail yesterday.
Capt. Clarito Alvarez and Lt. Pio Alvarez of the airport police at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIAA), each posted P24,000 bail after frustrated homicide charges were filed against them yesterday at the Lapu-Lapu City Prosecutors Office.
The police officers, who are cousins, were arrested for shooting and wounding Cpl. Esmeraldo Pongasi Binsi, a resident of Babag 2, Lapu-Lapu City.
Police said the shootout occurred Thursday night inside their office at the MCIA.
Binsi, who was shot in the neck and back, is still recupaterating in a hospital./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA
TRADER ROBBED IN BARILI
A CATTLE buyer was robbed by an armed man in barangay Malolos, Barili town, southern Cebu, last Monday.
Alberto Alipar, 65, lost P120,000 in the robbery.
The Barili resident told police that he went to sitio Mangga when Junior Canillas, a habal-habal driver, contacted him, informing him that someone wanted to sell him cattle.
Alipar and his friend, Segundino Mabanag, went to the place where they were met by a certain Nap, who introduced himself as the errand boy of the buyer.
The three were walking along a road when a man grabbed Alipar, fired a gun thrice and declared a holdup.
Alipar said he handed over his wallet to the robber.
Investigation will be made to find out if the victim’s companions were in cahoots with the robber, said SPO1 Job Sarvida of the Barili police./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC