Child abuser hacks rescuers

MAYUGA, LIBAGON – A school security guard here who had reportedly been molesting an 11 year old student hacked and killed one of her rescuers and seriously wounded the other.
Police claim Maximo Espina attacked Danilo Ilagan and Dennis Calibo when they confronted him at the Mayuga Elementary School.
The 11 year old girl claimed Espina had kissed and mashed her and that she reported the incident to the victims.
Ranilo Iligan who suffered hacked wounds on different parts of his body died before reaching the Sogod District Hospital while Dennis Calibo who sustained hacked wounds on the head is now fighting for his life.

Leper slashed to death

JUANGON, MALITBOG - A 60 year old leper was hacked to death here last week end.
Police who identified the victim as Demeterio Capili said he died from deep slash wounds on both sides of his neck and face. They assumed he died instantly and had been dead 24 hours when they found his body.

CAFGU commits suicide

ORMOC CITY - A member of the Citizen Armed Forces Geographic Unit (CAFGU) here committed suicide last November 2 at around 9:30 PM in Barangay Tambulilid.
The victim who police identified as 21 year old Leonardo “Leo” Avila had just celebrated his birthday last November one. A resident of Sitio Pagluksuon, Barangay. Dolores, Avila shot himself with a 38 caliber revolver. He sustained a gun shot wound on his left chest.
Avila reportedly killed himself in desperation since his former girlfriend was pregnant and he was already seeing another woman who he wanted to marry.

German’s house search yields suspected explosives

ALBUERA, LEYTE – A domestic dispute between a German and his Filipina wife here has taken a sinister twist after police found chemicals in his office which they believe are ingredients for a bomb.
The chemicals suspected to be nitroglycerin and TNT were confiscated from the couple’s house last October 31 after an ordinance team from the regional office of the PNP searched the office of German chemist Richard Himmelsbach.
Himmelsbach was not around during the search because he left the place two weeks before after a heated argument with his wife Adelle.
He has denied he had explosives and insisted the glycerin was for a pineapple wine he was fermenting.
Hemmelsback has filed a motion to quash the search warrant which he said was improperly served and that neither he nor his counsel were informed about it.
Police claim the couple had a bitter separation a year and a half ago resulting in a protracted court battle with one party suing the other for a variety of reasons. They said they had reconciled for the sake of their six year old son Jaime last September.
It was an uneasy reconciliation however and marred with violent incidents.
Last October the German got drunk and tried to get a policeman to shoot him and failing to had slashed his own wrist
(By Lalaine M. Jimenea)

Local Dirty Harry

MAASIN CITY – Special Police Inspector Abraham “Bam-Bam” Lumen who SLT considers the local version of Inspector Harry Callahan of the block buster movie Dirty Harry has done it again; he has solved another crime, but this time 120 kilometers from his area of responsibility.
Formerly assigned to Maasin City Lumen sowed fear among murderers, rapists and scalawags in the city for his no-nonsense approach to police work which he based on intelligence and a “shape up or ship out” policy.
Bam-Bam who is currently (in deep freeze) as OIC police chief of Pintuyan was visiting here when a neighbor told him his daughter’s P8000 Nokia cell phone had been snatched.
Lumen quickly investigated the case and zeroed on a notorious Sitio Nacoco trouble maker named Eric Ramos who was later positively identified by the victim.
The case was amicably settled when Eric Ramos returned the cell phone and swore to Saint Peter and Abraham Lumen that he would henceforth be a good role model of his community.
Note: In the aftermath of the shocking robberies in Barangay Manhilo a year ago, we criticized the shabby police work which led to nowhere, and called for the return of the likes of SPO4 Lumen to the city police force. It was a cry in the wilderness for no one in city hall was listening.
If our police can’t enforce our laws why don’t we arm our barangay Tanods so they can do their job. Their nightsticks are no match for the razor sharp bolos and guns of rapists and thieves who prowl our neighborhood at night looking for easy prey.

Drunk Killed in Ravine fall

MALITBOG TOWN - The rotting body of a 52 year old farmer was found here hanging from a clump of vines inside a deep ravine last weekend. Police identified the corpse as that of Camilo Figura Lastima. Neighbors claimed he was on his way home after an all day drinking session and must have slipt and fallen into the ravine. They said he had been missing since November 5. A doctor who performed the autopsy said Lastimosa had died from head injuries and exposure.
Note: The great majority of deaths reported in provincial police blotters were due to drunkenness. Most of the fatalities involved senior citizens who were 50 years old and older. The moral of the story is, if you are 50 and above, and like to drink; drink at home where you can pass out in peace.

Fisherman Spears Fisherman

HIMAYANGAN, LILOAN – Jacinto Pacondo a 55 year old spear fisherman was himself impaled and seriously wounded by his friend after a violent altercation. According to investigators 40 year old Jaime Mancio had hit the victim in the right breast with a home made stainless spear.
Investigation revealed that Pacondo’s son who was drunk at the time had forced his way into the suspect’s home and had mauled him, stoned his house and challenged him to a duel.
Mancio who came out later to confront the younger Pacondo was ambushed and stoned by the elder Pacondo who was waiting for him. Mancio claimed he speared Pacondo in self defense, since the objects he was hurling at him were the size of boulders.

Child Abuser

BARANGAY MAAC, SOGOD - A police team led by Police Officer Samuel Daclan of the Sogod police force has arrested a 64 year old widower named Diotimy Padalapat alias “Diniit” for suspected child abuse
The team which had responded to a call for police assistance from a concerned citizen arrested the suspect and found in his possession a 38 caliber paltik.
The suspect was brought to the police station for questioning and will be charged with illegal possession of a firearm.

Note: Child abuse cases involving poor complainants seldom reach court because police investigators have a hard time convincing vital witnesses to speak out. This was what happened in the brutal rape-slaying of a 13 year-old girl in barangay Amparo, Macrohon several years ago where the vital witnesses refused to testify because they were harassed by friends of the four suspects.
One of the main suspects eventually left the country as an overseas contract worker, while the three others have remained in the barangay and were having drinking sprees near the rattan forest where the naked body of the 13 year old girl was found spread-eagled in a shallow grave.