POLICE FILES

TEENAGE BOY ROBS TAXI

Police arrested a 17-year-old boy after he held up a taxi driver at knifepoint in barangay Cogon-Ramos, Cebu City yesterday.

The driver, Sergio Caritan, was injured in the neck and chin after he resisted the robbery.

Police said the teenager boarded the taxi in Lapu-Lapu City and asked to be brought to Cogon-Ramos.

When they reached the place, the boy poked a knife at the driver’s neck and took his earnings of more than P1,000.

The boy ran off but was intercepted by police./Correspondent Chito Aragon

jeepney robbery

Two men were arrested after a jeepney holdup in Cebu City on Thursday.

Police said they arrested Che-che “Ecoy” Rondina Toring, 31, and Richard Tonacao, 19, after the two robbed jeepney passengers and fled toward the Chinese cemetery in barangay Hipodromo.

The suspects are both residents of barangay Careta. Police said they recovered a .38 revolver from Toring’s possession./Correspondent Chito Aragon

MOTHER, DAUGHTER SHOT IN BARILI

A 50-year-old mother and her daughter were shot and wounded at home by a man in Barili town, south Cebu, on Wednesday.

Merlita Blanco and her 20-year-old daughter Jacquilyn were rushed to a Cebu City hospital after the incident.

Police said the suspect, Vicente Misal of Dumangjug town knocked on the door of their house in barngay Pangpang, looking for Merlita’s son, Jorob.

When the mother opened the door, Misal spotted Jorob in the house and fired a gun.

He missed his mark as Jorob jumped out the window. Police said Misal then turned his gun on the mother and daughter.

Police said they suspect a love triangle was involved because Jorob and the suspect’s live-in partner were seen together in a benefit dance recently.

Misal, who is still at large, will be charged with frustrated murder, police said./Correspondent Gabriel C. Bonjoc

FOOD POISONING?

POLICE are investigating the death of a woman who may have been a victim of food poisoning after she ate fish bought from a roadside vendor in barnagay Banilad, Mandaue City.

An autopsy has yet to be conducted on the victim, 26-year-old Rusell Montejo.

Her boyfriend Johnny Eroisa, 46, said they had bought tuna (tulingan) and tuloy fish by the road near their residence in sitio Sampaguita and eaten in a few days ago.

Police advised him to bring a sample of the food they ate for laboratory examination by the Bureau of Foods and Drugs.

Eroisa told police he and Montejo steamed a kilo of tulingan and half a kilo of tuloy with vinegar which he had bought from a certain Onyot around 6 p.m. last Sunday.

Eroisa said he did not eat the dish until Monday morning for breakfast after he reheated it.

He said he ate it again later for dinner.

By Tuesday morning, the woman ate the leftover fish and later complained of a stomachache after the meal.

Eroisa told police he brought his girlfriend to a neighbor, who is a folk healer, when the pain didn’t stop after applying herbal ointment at home.

Eroisa said the native healer, Judith Maano, treated the woman with herbs and advised them to see a doctor.

The woman was brought to the Dr. Ignacio M. Cortes Hospital in barangay Centro but did not make it alive./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA