Man nabbed after third attempt to kill neighbor

Talk about persistence.

A man was arrested on Sunday afternoon after he tried to stab his neighbor in Marikina City three times in the past five days.

The police said that Michael Cabacang, an unemployed man, attacked Algreg de los Santos with a knife around 2 p.m. on Sunday as the latter was fixing his things in a storage room beside his house in Purok 6, Barangay Malanday.

De los Santos, a garbage scavenger, escaped unhurt from all three attempts. According to PO3 Ruben Candelario, the first attempt was made on Wednesday followed by a second one at 1 a.m. on Sunday.

The victim reported the first incident but not the second, Candelario added. On his third try, the suspect was arrested in his house after De los Santos went to them to ask for help, the policeman said.

The motive of the suspect, who is out on bail following his arrest last month on a charge of illegal possession of bladed weapon, remains unclear as he refuses to talk to investigators, Candelario said.

Seized from the suspect were a 14-inch knife and a six-inch-long sharpened steel pipe. Now detained at the Marikina Police station, he will be charged with grave threat. Jovic Yee

Munti’s 7th most wanted drug pusher falls

The seventh most wanted drug pusher in Alabang, Muntinlupa City, was arrested on Sunday night, according to the police.

A report sent to the Southern Police District (SPD) identified the suspect as Dennis Hugo.

Supt. Jenny Tecson, SPD public information officer, said that Hugo was arrested at the Philippine National Railways site in Joaquin Compound after he sold a sachet containing methamphetamine hydrochloride or “shabu” to an undercover policeman. Tecson added that the recovered drugs and a P500 bill would be brought to the SPD crime lab “for examination and proper disposition.” Kristine Felisse Mangunay

Mass of Remembrance on Feb. 5

The prayer Warriors of the Holy Souls (PWHS) will offer a Mass of Remembrance for the souls of the victims who died in major calamities, wars, tragedies and other unfortunate events of major significance that happened this month at 11:15 a.m. on Feb. 5 at the Manila Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica.

These include those who died in an earthquake in New Zealand in 2011, passengers of a Cebu Pacific flight that crashed in Misamis Oriental in 1998, commuters on a derailed train that caught fire in Iran in 2003, victims of a gas explosion in China in 2004, and more recently, Kristel Mae Padasas, who died in an accident while serving as a volunteer during the visit of Pope Francis in Tacloban early this year.

The PWHS is a Catholic lay apostolate of the Monfort Foundation Inc. committed to propagate the devotion to holy souls in purgatory by offering a Mass every second Monday of the month for their eternal rest.