MetroBriefs: Man shot defending friends who abandoned him

FOR STANDING up for his friends, a barangay security officer in Quezon City now faces frustrated murder and direct assault charges after he shot a policeman out to arrest them on Friday.

However, Lizandro Pre, along with  PO2 Edward Rey Paggabao of the Quezon City Police District’s (QCPD) Fairview station, also ended up in the hospital for gunshot wounds.

Pre was earlier placed under arrest after he fired at a four-member police team which was about to serve his friends Elmer Fajarito and Angel Villanueva with an arrest warrant on robbery charges.

Case investigator PO2 Rhic Pittong of the QCPD Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit said that Paggabao and three other policemen went to Champaca West Street in Barangay Pasong Putik to arrest Fajarito and Villanueva.

When the two men who were also armed were spotted in front of Pre’s house, the lawmen introduced themselves but the suspects drew their guns and fired first, hitting Paggabao in the chest.

A shoot-out ensued with Pre getting hit in the abdomen as his friends abandoned him and escaped. Jovic Yee

Burglar caught after returning to crime scene

A BURGLAR was arrested by authorities on Saturday after he returned to the house he had robbed the day before to recover his lost cell phone.

Clark Anton Noynay was subsequently charged with robbery after he took more than P64,000 worth of gadgets and jewelry from Pagasa Anastacio and her family as they were sound asleep inside their house on Bicol Street in Barangay Payatas B on Friday night.

PO2 Rolando Laddaran of the Quezon City Police District’s Batasan Station said that Noynay was caught on Saturday by two barangay security officers as he was looking for the cell phone he had dropped behind his victims’ house.

Anastacio told the police that she woke up around 11:30 p.m. on Friday and saw the suspect exiting through a small opening at the back of their house.

She would later discover that he had stolen watches and several pieces of jewelry and gadgets.

The police later seized from the 25-year-old suspect half of the loot, including his cell phone. Jovic Yee