POLICE FILES

CAR LOOTINGS

POLICE are monitoring five persons believed to be behind the series of car lootings in Mandaue City.

Police are withholding the names of the five persons to avoid hampering operations to arrest them.

Senior Supt. Noel Gillamac, chief of the Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO), said the perpetrators are monitoring the police investigation through newspaper and television reports.

Gillamac said the five persons belong to two groups behind the basag kotse and bukas kotse incidents.

Gillamac said police could not file charges against these persons for lack of witnesses who could pin them down.

The video footage caught by security cameras in establishments where car looting happened are blurred, said Gillamac.

Police asked the public to be vigilant and cooperate with the police to stop the incidents of car break-ins.

Police advised car owners to have their car windows tinted and avoid leaving valuables inside the car. REPORTER JUCELL MARIE P. CUYOS

ALEGRIA ROAD ACCIDENT

A MAN was killed while two others were wounded after a motorcycle hit a pedestrian along a road in barangay Madridejos, Alegria town, southwest Cebu, on Wednesday night.

Police identified the fatality as Rolando Balbuena. Wounded were Jose Dicdican, 62, and Elpidio Javierto, 62.

Police said Javierto was crossing the road when he was hit by a motorcycle driven by Dicdican with Balbuena as backrider.

Police said Dicdican and Balbuena were thrown off the motorcycle.

The three men were rushed to the Reinhard Wertgen Memorial Hospital where Balbuena was declared dead on arrival.

Police said Dicdican and Balbuena were on their way home after attending a fiesta celebration in barangay Sta. Filomena when the accident occurred.  CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC

2 PERSONS NABBED IN BUY-BUST

A MAN and woman were arrested in a drug buy-bust operation in barangay Tajao, Pinamungahan town, western Cebu.

Junio Arco and Maricel Mendoza were arrested by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) after they allegedly sold a pack of shabu worth P200 to a poseur buyer.

Two more packs of suspected shabu were recovered from Mendoza’s possession after the arrest, said police.

The arrested persons refused to comment on their arrest.   REPORTER CHITO O. ARAGON