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Man killed, another hurt in poker game brawl

A POKER game ended badly for a man who was stabbed by the other player’s family after he attacked his opponent’s father on Wednesday night in Fairview, Quezon City. Rolly Napay, 42, died while being treated at FEU Hospital where he was rushed after Jonel Castil and his brothers stabbed him. However, Castil’s father, Samuel, remains confined in the same hospital after the victim stabbed him in the stomach during the free-for-all. Case investigator PO2 Rhic Pittong said that Castil and his two younger brothers escaped after they ganged up on the victim. According to the police, Castil and the victim who were neighbors on Urlina Street in Barangay West Fairview were playing poker when they had a disagreement. Castil hit the victim with a chair, prompting the latter to run to his own house and grab a knife. He then barged into Castil’s house, alarming the latter’s father who tried to defend his son by attempting to hit the victim with a piece of wood. The victim, however, dodged the blow and stabbed the elder Castil in the abdomen. “The three younger Castils saw this and rushed to their father’s aid,” the police said. One of the brothers grabbed the victim’s knife and stabbed him also in the abdomen as the others ganged up on him.  Julie M. Aurelio

2 arrested for robbing taxi driver

A MAN and his teenage cohort face charges after they were arrested for robbing a taxi driver earlier this week in Quezon City. Mark Lester Enrique, who is also a taxi driver, and 18-year-old Xander Fabor were picked up by a team from the Galas police station just before dawn on Tuesday after their victim asked for help from a passing police car.  Jonas Elacan said that the two men had flagged him down and then asked him to take them to a beerhouse on E. Rodriguez Avenue. On their way there, however, the two announced a heist and took his money which totaled P200. Galas police station commander Supt. Norberto Babagay said the two men yielded an ice pick, a set of metal knuckles and the stolen money. Julie M. Aurelio

2 maids wanted for taking P.5M worth of jewelry

It took years before a woman noticed that she had lost more than half a million pesos worth of jewelry to her maids. But by the time she became aware of her loss, the culprits were already gone. In a report to the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, Ana Marie San Diego, a retired employee and resident of Project 7, claimed she lost P565,000 worth of jewelry to her former helpers—Riza Subalan and Danica Montallana, both 27. Subalan worked for the victim from April 2008 to January this year while Montallana was employed from September 2012 to January 2013. The victim said she learned that her jewelry was missing after she fired the two women. According to San Diego, she lost three men’s necklaces, a men’s bracelet, four women’s necklaces, two bracelets, a gold ring and two pairs of earrings. The police said they were looking for the two maids. Julie M. Aurelio