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NBI nabs bogus lawyer in Mandaluyong

Failure to issue receipts proved to be the undoing of a 50-year-old man who was arrested by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation on Monday for allegedly posing as a lawyer. Apart from allegedly deceiving a businesswoman, Senen Jose Duadico, of Cordillera Street, Mandaluyong City, is also the subject of arrest warrants issued in three different cities. Complainant Rosalind Geolagon said she first met Duadico in March when she was looking for a notary public to prepare her complaint-affidavit against a mall where she owns a stall. Duadico offered to represent her and charged her P1,800 for filing and notarial fees. She agreed and paid the amount, but when she asked Duadico for a receipt he could not produce any. She grew suspicious, checked with the Supreme Court, and found that he was not a member of the bar. The NBI later discovered that Duadico also had standing arrest warrants issued by a Pasig City court for indirect contempt; another by a Quezon City court for direct contempt; and another by a Makati City court for estafa and usurpation of authority. Jeannette I. Andrade

Victim’s last words to gunman: ‘It wasn’t me!’

Carwash shop owner David Calimposan pleaded for his life but the gunman was not moved. The 40-year-old victim was shot dead at around 4 a.m. Friday while tending to his shop at his home in Barangay Balonbato in Balintawak, Quezon City. Calimposan died of two gunshot wounds while being treated at MCU Hospital. PO1 Roldan Cornejo said the victim was heard pleading with his killer to spare him. “It wasn’t me!” he purportedly said in Filipino. Carwash employees who witnessed the shooting said the gunman casually walked away and joined another man on a motorcycle, which then sped toward the Edsa-Balintawak area. Julie M. Aurelio

Rob gang leader ‘Popo’ falls

The Paranaque City police arrested the alleged leader of a motorcycle and cell phone theft group operating in southern Metro Manila. Senior Supt. Billy Beltran, city police chief, identified the suspect as Eric dela Cruz, alias Popo, a resident of Pildera II in Pasay City.  Seized from Dela Cruz were three cell phones with no SIM (subscriber identity module) cards and some cash. Beltran said Dela Cruz, 32, led the so-called Popo Group which was behind a string of motorcycle thefts in 2008 and 2009 in Parañaque, Las Piñas, and Pasay. Nathaniel Melican