Cops eyeing jealousy  
in suicide of Bacoleño

Jealousy allegedly drove Carlo Antiqueña, 31, of Phase 1 Regent Pearl Homes Subdivision, Brgy. Alijis, Bacolod City, to commit suicide by hanging himself with a belt from the ceiling of the balcony of his house in Brgy. Alijis, early yesterday morning.

Crime against person investigator Police Officer 1 Arnel Deles said that based on initial investigation he conducted with Police Officer 2 Juliebert Dalumpines and Senior Police Officer 1 Danny Abalayan, Antiqueña and his wife, whose name the police did not disclose, had a heated argument earlier.

Minutes later, Antiqueña was found by his brother-in-law Bryan Dueñas, at about 4 a.m. suspended from the ceiling of their balcony. Antiqueña died while being rushed to the Bacolod Adventist Medical Center, Deles said.

Antiqueña’s body will no longer be subjected to an autopsy, as they believe that there is no foul play behind his death.

On Friday, widower Jerry Chavez, Sr., 55, of Purok Pag-asa, Brgy. Estefania also hanged himself, with a rope in his house, allegedly because of a lingering illness.

Meanwhile, Edito Pasensya, 22, of Purok Kabakwan, Brgy. Villamonte was stabbed at about 1 a.m. yesterday in Purok Bayanihan, and died while being rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital.

Deles said a longhaired man had been seen accompanying Pasensya while leaving a benefit dance, before he was found by a barangay tanod lying on his back in a banana plantation, with multiple stab wounds.

The motive and the identity of the suspect or suspects is still being determined by the Bacolod City Police Office Investigation and Detective Management Section crime against person desk.*APN

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Arrested gun ban violators
in city now twelve -- police

The Bacolod City Police Station 1 arrested the 12th elections gun ban violator in Purok Dawis, Brgy. 13, Bacolod City, at about 2 a.m. yesterday.

Arrested was Joey Lapian, 35, of Brgy. 13, Police Officer 2 Joshua Barile said.

Lapian was allegedly chased by Dandan Marami, 36, of Brgy. 14 with a bolo. The suspect then went home and took his improvised shotgun, police said.

An improvised shotgun or “sulpak” with live ammunition of a 12-guage shotgun was recovered from Lapian while a 15-inch bolo was seized from Marami.

Both Lapian and Marami are now detained at Station 1 and will be facing charges for illegal possession of firearms, and concealment of bladed weapon, investigators said.

Charges for violation of city ordinance 358 and illegal possession of firearms and violation of COMELEC gun ban, are also readied against five men who were arrested in a checkpoint in front of Police Station 1 Friday last week, Barile said.

Alexander Sausa Jr., 25, Richard Gonzales, 18, Rovir Puray, 27, Mark Anthony Gonzales, 19, and Ian Villanueva, 29, all of EB Magalona town, Negros Occidental, were arrested when the police noticed that something was protruding from the waist band of Sausa.

An improvised shotgun with a live ammunition was seized from Sausa, while bladed weapons were recovered from his companions, police records show.*APN

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