TRAFFIC SCHEME EXTENSION The Cebu City Council has approved a one-month extension of an experimental traffic scheme in a portion of Panganiban Street located along N. Bacalso Avenue and in Sanciangko Street. Councilor Ritchie Osmeña, proponent of the extension, said the City Traffic Operations Management (Citom) needed more time to “study the effect” of the [...]
A day after its resolution, charges are being readied against both the municipal police and four followers of Mayor-elect Joel Quiño in relation to last Wednesday’s municipal hall takeover in Compostela town, northern Cebu. Senior Insp. Rodrigo Giangan, Compostela municipal police chief, said criminal charges may be filed against the four identified Quiño supporters who [...]
LAPU TOWING THE director of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office (LLCPO) clarified that the traffic police in coordination with City Traffic Management System (CTMS) will be implementing the towing services in the city. Senior Supt. Anthony Obenza told Cebu Daily News it is not the police and Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) that would identify [...]
Burglars struck at a Mandaue City bank on Saturday and fled with at least P40,000 worth of electronic gadgets. Police said the burglar’s got lucky after the alarm system and closed circuit television (CCTV) of China Bank in SB Cabahug Street, barangay Centro, Mandaue City, malfunctioned due to a drained battery powering the system’s uninterrupted [...]
TWO men were arrested after two fellow passengers, who turned out to be policemen, caught them trying to steal a prayer book from a 70-year-old woman inside a passenger jeepney on Saturday morning in A.C. Cortes Avenue, barangay Guizo, Mandaue City. The two policemen, PO3 Edmund Bilocura and PO2 Brian Berenguer, arrested Eljake ‘Opaw’ Buhion, [...]
THREE unidentified men robbed a fashion accessory store in downtown Cebu City yesterday morning. At least 200 pieces of silver fashion accessories were taken from J and A Wholesale For You owned by Australian national Art Burroughes and his business partners. The stolen items were worth at least P300,000. Store attendant Blessa Tingal and her [...]
A LONE robber had his motorcycle refueled before robbing the cashier-pumpboy of a gas station along a national highway in barangay Taytayan, Bogo City, northern Cebu. It didn’t help that the gas station’s security guard was asleep when the robbery occurred at dawn yesterday, said PO3 Allan Dosdos, investigator of the Bogo City police. Demar [...]
BELLA Ruby Santos lost her valuables to unidentified burglars who purportedly ransacked her residence in barangay Inayagan, Naga City, on Wednesday night. Santos, one of the primary suspects in the kidnap-slay of 6-year-old Ellah Joy Pique, made a blotter about the incident at the Naga City police station. She lost her laptop, two digital cameras, [...]
SUICIDE A 56-YEAR-OLD man suffering from asthma was found hanging dead in his home in barangay Babag II, Lapu-Lapu City early morning yesterday. Police said there were no signs of foul play in the death of Porperio Piañar. Police said the man’s wife had to go to their relatives to borrow money for the medication [...]
DAANBANTAYAN Mayor Ma. Luisa Loot denied stealing a digital camera owned by the supporter of an opposing party. In a counter-affidavit submitted to the Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas where she faces a probe on robbery filed by Shellice Toyoca, the mayor said charges against here were “fabricated and malicious.” She said she [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Financial cooperative Bay Federal Credit Union is offering up to $5,000 for information that will help FBI agents and police arrest the unidentified robbers who pulled off a heist in Watsonville, California Friday last week. FBI agents and Watsonville police detectives said that the robbers, armed with semi-automatic guns, entered the bank at 1:15 [...]
Armed men on two motorbikes held up a van of pawnshop managers in Lapu-Lapu City and made off with a bag of jewelry worth about P5 million. The robbers smashed the windshield of the van, which had just fetched six managers of the M. Lhuillier pawnshop chain from the Mactan airport. A black Hyundai Starex [...]
