Police Files

VINTAGE BOMB FOUND IN PASIL

A WORLD WAR II vintage  mortar was found by a scavenger along the shoreline of barangay Pasil, Cebu City,  yesterday.

Edner Fernandez tried to sell it to a junk shop, unaware that he had found an unexploded bomb, but  the shop owner refused to buy the metal item for fear that it would explode.

Fernandez finally turned over the foot-long ordnance to the San Nicolas police station.

“The bomb was identified as an 81-mm mortar. It is an unexploded ordnance. We can’t tell how old it it but it can still explode,”  said Chief Supt. Arnel Banzon, chief of the Special Weapons and Tactics-Cebu City.

The bomb  weighed around two to three kilograms./CORRESPONDENT RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL

BUSAY  HOUSE BURGLARIZED

NOT even the presence of a security guard could stop burglars from  entering the house of a businessman in barangay Busay, Cebu City.

Police said homeowner  John Young, owner of JPY Construction, lost  P50,000, four iPhones, a laptop and a Rolex wristwatch in the robbery.

Young is the father of Slater Young, a contestant of the reality show “Pinoy Big Brother.”

Police said the Young couple was sleeping in  the master’s bedroom when burglars struck at dawn yesterday.

The door of the house was unlocked since there was a security who was posted at the gate, said PO2 Carlo Balasoto of theCebu City police./CORRESPONDENT RHEA RUTH V. ROSELL

TRAFFIC WOES IN TABUNOK

THE Talisay City government will start today its crackdown on tricycles illegally parked under the Tabunok flyover near the old market.

Violators will be apprehended by Task Force Alpha of the Land Transportation Office.

The parked tricycles have caused heavy traffic near the flyover. Some residents also complain that some tricycle drivers who refused to bring passengers to the new market in Lagtang.

The space under the flyover became an instant parking area after the parking area at the  old market was closed.

Arturo Bas, the city’s public information officer, said tricycle drivers should use the parking area at the new market in barangay Lagtang./CORRESPONDENT GABRIEL C. BONJOC