Police files
LABORER STABBED IN DRINKING BOUT
A CONSTRUCTION worker stabbed and wounded his co-worker for allegedly making fun of him while they had a drinking session in barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City.
Ramil Sismar, 34, a native of barangay Pit-os, Carcar City, was arrested shortly after attacking Edmund Sinchez Sacamay, 27, of barangay Guadalupe Cebu City.
The two men were stay-in workers of Collinwoods Subdivision.
Police said the two men and fellow workers had a drinking session which lasted until 2 a.m. yesterday.
Police said while the workers were drinking, Sismar received a text message from his girlfriend.
Police said Sacamay and the other workers laughed when they learned that the woman was asking for Sismar’s whereabouts.
Sismar took offense and left. He later returned and attacked Sacamay, who was brought to the hospital with stab wounds in the right arm.
Civilian anti-crime volunteers arrested Sismar in the bunkhouse. /CORRESPONDENT FE MARIE D. DUMABOC
MAN SHOT BY DRINKING BUDDY
A MAN was shot and wounded by his drinking buddy in barangay Poblacion, Talisay City, southern Cebu.
Michael Bustillo was wounded in the leg.
The assailant, whose name was not immediately known, fled after the incident last Monday night.
Police said the two men were drinking when they argued. During the scuffle, the assailant drew a gun and shot Bustillo.
Bustillo sought help from residents in the area and was brought to the Talisay City District Hospital. /CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC
COP IN MOTORCYCLE CRASH DIES
THE policeman who figured in a road accident in Talisay City died after two days of hospital confinement.
SPO2 Conrado Rocamora, who was assigned at the warrant section of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), died last Saturday at the Chong Hua Hospital.
The policeman suffered injuries in the head and body.
Police said Rocamora was driving a motorcycle on his way to a tree-planting activity in Naga City when he met an accident at the South Road Properties last Thursday morning.
Rocamora’s motorcycle crashed when it hit a piece of wood. Rocamora was thrown off the road after losing his balance.
Rocamora’s fellow policemen rode a Kaohsiung bus on their way to the tree-planting activity. The policemen opted to go there separately to break-in his new motorcycle.
Senior Supt. Melvin Ramon Buenafe, chief of the CCPO, said benefits will be released to the policeman’s relatives. /CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON
MAN FOUND DEAD IN LODGING HOUSE
A WORKER from Quezon City was found dead in his rented room of a lodging house in barangay Alang-Alang Mandaue City.
The fatality was identified as Edwin Apadan, worker of Ram Fire Protection System Corp. based in Quezon City.
Police said the man arrived at the lodging house drunk last Sunday night. The man was seen leaving the lodging house at 10 a.m. the following morning and took his breakfast.
The man returned an hour later.
Joseph Orque, 22, a worker of the lodging house, went to the man’s room to inform him that there was a delivery addressed to him.
Orque knocked on the door of the man’s room but he did not respond. Orque opened the door using a duplicate key and found the man’s body on top of a bed.
The body was brought to a funeral parlor for an autopsy to find out if there was foul play involved in the man’s death, said police. /CORRESPONDENT FE MARIE D. DUMABOC
HOUSE RAZED IN CEBU CITY FIRE
A HOUSE was razed while two others were damaged in a fire in barangay Day-as, Cebu City.
Property damage was pegged at P30,000.
The fire started at the second floor of Alejandro Maglinte’s house in sitio Imus. The fire broke out at 1:28 p.m. yesterday and was contained in two minutes, said FO3 Emiliano Daño of the Cebu City Fire Department.
Electrical misuse may have caused the fire, said Daño.
The damaged houses were owned by Leoncio Uy and Jerome Puerto.
Daño said the wide road leading to the fire scene helped the firefighters contain the blaze immediately. /CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON
