Internet café,
house robbed

Robbers ransacked an Internet café at Rosario-Verbena streets, Bacolod City Saturday morning and took computer screen monitors, while a residence in Brgy. Mansilingan, in the city was looted Friday night, by thieves who took several pieces of jewelry, police records showed yesterday.

Nemuel Apostol, 22, of Brgy. Mansilingan and employed at Renovation Internet Café told the police they discovered the theft at about 9:30 a.m. when they opened their establishment.

Investigation conducted by Police Officer 3 Rodel Delos Reyes and Police Officer 1 Raffy John Calderon showed that the robbers were able to enter the Internet Café by destroying the sliding window shutter.

They took four computer screen monitors valued at P28,000 and P2,445 in cash, the police said.

Meanwhile, Rosalia Alvarado, 56, of Grandville 3 Subdivision, Brgy. Mansilingan, sought police help when she discovered that her house was ransacked at about 8:30 p.m. Friday.

Alvarado said the thieves took three wristwatches and jewelry valued at P82,000.

Crime against property investigator, Police Officer 1 Eduardo Berio, told the DAILY STAR that the thieves entered Alvarado’s house by detaching at least six jalousie slats from the stockroom window. The complainant’s husband was not around when the robbery took place.

Berio said that, based in their initial investigation, the suspects could have hidden in an abandoned house near the residence of Alvarado, as they recovered a pair of denim pants, a pair of slippers and clothes there.

He added that before the robbery, Alvarado’s husband saw an old man in front of their house.*APN

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Teenager nabbed
for snatching: PNP

A teenager was arrested but his companion evaded arrest after they allegedly snatched a cellular phone from a woman at an Internet café at Burgos Street, Bacolod City yesterday morning.

The suspect, 16, of Fuentebella Subdivision, Brgy. Taculing and whose name the police withheld, was arrested by Police Officer 2 Gegger Sebuan of Police Station 2. His companion who evaded arrest was identified only as alias “Danoy” of Brgy. 26. Bacolod.

Complainant Roshen Carmona, 20, of Purok Cawayan, Brgy. 28, told the police that she was with her sister Jermy, 15, at the Marby’s Internet café when alias “Danoy” suddenly took her cellular phone valued at P6,000 and fled.

Sebuan, who happened to be near the area, chased the suspects, and arrested the 16-year-old near the Burgos Public Market and later endorsed him to Police Station 4. 

Alias “Danoy” threw away the cellular phone of the victim at Rizal-Hilado streets as he fled. It was recovered by a concerned citizen, who turned it over to Police Station 4.

Hazel Moreño, 24, of Brgy. Caliling, Cauayan, Negros Occidental also reported that three men on a motorcycle snatched her brown wallet with P400 in cash and documents, while she was walking along Pag-asa Street, in Brgy. Villamonte, at about 7 p.m. Saturday.

Earlier on Saturday, two men on a motorcycle also snatched the brown sling bag containing P350 in cash, jewelries valued at P4,000 and cellular phone valued at P5,000 of Elizabeth Treyes, 50, of Gonzaga Extension, Bacolod while she was at Narra Avenue Bacolod at about 8 a.m.

Meanwhile, a taxi driver and a teenager were held up in Barangay Villamonte yesterday and Saturday.

The victims were identified as Bobby Palermo, 33, of Purok Sambag, Arabay 1, Brgy.  Estefania, and Jenny Vebb Tingson, 19, of Malaspina Street, Brgy. Villamonte.

Palermo told the police that he was driving his taxi at about 11:45 a.m. when the suspects flagged him near the old Philippine Constabulary compound at Circumferential Road, held him up at knife point and took his P600 in cash.

Tingson said she was standing at Malaspina Street at about 3 a.m. Saturday when a tricycle stopped near her. One of the suspects alighted from the tricycle choked her, covered her mouth, declared a hold up, and took her cellular phone.*APN

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