Police Files
GUARD KILLED IN TOLEDO
A SECURITY guard was shot dead by three motorcycle-riding assailants in barangay Bato, Toledo City, Cebu on Saturday night.
Police said Florante Tubalado, 30, was shot while walking home around 7 p.m.
The assailants wore full-faced helmets.
Tubalado of Golden Hawk Security Services Inc. was detailed in Toledo Global Corporation in barangay Daanglungsod.
Police are still investigating the motive of the killing./REPORTER JUCELL MARIE P. CUYOS
Article continues after this advertisementTHIEVES STRIKE IN CEBU CITY
Article continues after this advertisementTHIEVES preying on parked vehicles struck anew while a boarding house was ransacked in separate incidents in Cebu City at dawn yesterday.
Debbie Paez, 29, said P3,000 and personal belongings were stolen from her car.
Paez told police that she parked her car along a road in barangay Capitol Site around 2 a.m.
Paez went back to her car a few minutes later and was surprised to see the right window of the car smashed and found her maroon bag missing.
Paez reported the incident to the police.
Police said the bag was found by a trisikad driver in barangay San Nicolas. It was already empty.
In barangay Sambag-2, Allan Paul Deada Hillas, 27, a call center agent, reported to the police that his rented room was ransacked.
Hillas said the burglars struck while he was away.
Hillas said he discovered that his laptop worth P30,000, a pair of shoes worth P5,000 and coins amounting to P100 were missing.
Hillas told police that he left the door of his rented room unlocked “because I trust the people there.”
The boarding house’s security guard said he went to the toilet and saw a man whose face was covered with a T-shirt leaving the boarding house.
The unsuspecting guard did not stop the man./CORRESPONDENT RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL
KOREAN FALLS PREY TO SNATCHERS
A FEMALE Korean tourist fell prey to motorcycle-riding snatchers in barangay Maribago, Lapu-Lapu City.
Jung Hun Lee, 30, told police that she was walking along a road early morning yesterday when a backrider of a motorcycle snatched her bag.
Lee said the snatchers wore full-faced helmets.
The Korean, who temporarily lives in a resort in Maribago, said the bag contained a camera worth $1,000, camera lens worth $400, a wallet containing P20,000 and an electronic dictionary worth $100./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA
PIER LABORER STABBED DEAD
A PORT worker was found dead by the roadside in barangay Sto. Niño, Cebu City past midnight yesterday.
Efren Amancio, 34, was found by a tanod with two stab wounds in the back.
Police said personal grudges could be the motive behind the killing.
Efren’s older brother Virgilio, 50, told police that the victim was accused of murder a few years ago.
Investigation will be made to identify the assailant, said police./CORRESPONDENT RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL
