Metrobriefs

Cop’s house burglarized

THIEVES broke into a policeman’s house in Quezon City while he and his partner were attending a wake and took a gun plus P21,000 worth of valuables. PO3 Dexter Baloran said he lost a Pietro Beretta 9 mm pistol, two cell phones worth P13,000 plus P8,000 in cash. Case investigator PO3 Gilmer Marinas said that Baloran, who is with the Aviation Security Group, and his partner left their house on Goldenshower Street in Barangay Payatas on Sunday night to go to a wake. When they returned the next day, they found that someone had broken one of the window panes to get into the house. Julie M. Aurelio

Shoemaker’s killers fall

TWO MEN believed to have stabbed and hacked a shoemaker to death were arrested in a police follow-up operation Tuesday morning. Jeffrey Ronales, 25, a construction worker and 22-year-old Roel Cabarles, a scavenger, were caught by officers of the Manila Police District homicide division headed by case investigator SPO1 Charles John Duran. In a report, Duran said Cabarles was arrested around 9 a.m. on A. H. Lacson Street, Sampaloc, Manila. He then told the police the whereabouts of Ronales who was caught near SM San Lazaro. The two were arrested after they were identified by a relative of their victim, Mateo Buyron, 53, through the footage taken by a closed-circuit television camera. On Monday morning, Buyron was asleep in his stall which also served as his shelter when the suspects attacked him, smashing his head with a hammer while the other stabbed him in the face with a knife. He later died of his injuries. The victim’s relative told the police that the two had quarreled with his uncle in December over a sleeping mat they borrowed from the victim. Maricar B. Brizuela