Sto.
Domingo ABC head escapes bomb attack
The President of the Association
of Barangay Captains (ABC) of Santo Domingo town escaped unhurt when a
bomb was thrown into his yard last May 2.
Sr. Supt. Napoleon Taas,
Nueva Ecija police director, could not say if the attack on Guillermo Bernardo,
chair of Barangay San Francisco, was politically motivated.
Bernardo is a known ally
of the Josons.
The barangay official was
not at home when the bomb exploded at around 3:30 AM.
Sr. Insp. Nicasio Malazzab,
Santo Domingo police chief, said operatives from the PNP Crime Laboratory
were still trying to determine the kind of explosive used in the attack.
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...
then gets arrested for illegal arms
Santo Domingo ABC president
Guillermo Bernardo of Barangay San Francisco was arrested together with
two security escorts after a pre dawn joint police-military raid
last May 3 yielded a cache of short and long firearms and ammunition.
Arrested with Bernardo were
his security aides Madiel Bernardo of Barangay Andal Aliño, Talavera
and Ernesto Corpuz of Poblacion Sur, Talavera.
The combined police and military
team were to serve an arrest warrant against Bernardo and two other persons
when the arresting team stumbled on the arms cache.
Found in the possession of
Bernardo and his security aides were a Daewoo K1A assault rifle, two Colt
AR15 assault rifles, a .45 cal. Colt pistol, a .45-cal. CZ97B pistol, four
magazines for 5.56mm, three magazines for .45 cal. CZ97B, a magazine for
.45 cal. Colt, 34 rounds of .45 cal. cartridges, 106 rounds of 5.56mm cartridges,
two pistol holsters and a pistol magazine pouch. ###
Cabanatuan
barangay chair shot dead
The chair of Barangay
Barlis, Cabanatuan City was shot dead last May 5.
Sr. Supt. Napoleon Taas,
Nueva Ecija police director, said the victim, Marcos Soriano, was sitting
on a bench with his wife in a bingo stall in Barangay Mayapyap Norte when
a gunman shot him at close range at about 12:15 AM.
The victim was hit in the
right cheek and rushed to a nearby hospital but was declared dead on arrival.
The gunman casually walked
away, got on black motorcycle driven by a companion and escaped. ###
Jaen
ex-barangay chair found guilty of slay
A former Jaen barangay chair
was found guilty for killing a man 13 years ago.
Presiding Judge Celso Baguio
of Branch 34 of the Gapan City Regional Trial Court sentenced Emmanuel
Leabres to a jail term of from six to 12 years for the fatal shooting of
Leoncio dela Peña in Barangay San Pablo, Jaen on June 15, 1995.
Leabres was ordered to pay
dela Peña's heirs P50,000 for civil indemnity, P50,000 for moral
damages, P28,000 for actual damages and P50,000 for attorney's fees and
litigation expenses.
Leabres' lawyer asked the
court for 15 days within which to file a motion for reconsideration. ###
Edno's
bill threatened by lack of House quorum
First Dist. Rep. Eduardo
Nonato Joson expressed fears that his bill, the Extra-Judicial Killing
Act of 2008, might be shelved because of lack of quorum during House sessions.
Under his proposal, members
of the police and the military found guilty of the crime of extra-judicial
killing will be meted with life imprisonment. Other violators could serve
a prison sentence of from 10 to 12 years.
Joson's bill ws approved
at the committee level last May 7 with all the members agreeing to raise
the penalty for offenders.
The bill is expected to stop
involuntary disappearances of ordinary Filipinos critical of the government.
Joson expressed hope that
his bill, which he considers very important for the people's safety, would
not suffer the same fate as other "frozen bills" like the amendments to
the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 and to the PNP Reform and
Reorganization Act, Tax Relief for Individual Taxpayers, Personal Equity
and Retirement Account, extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Program and Archipelagic Baseline Bill. ###
Only
8% of Ecija cops pass marksmanship training
Eight percent, or only 60
out of the 733 policemen in Nueva Ecija who underwent the International
Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) marksmanship training required by the
Philippine National Police, have qualified as marksmen.
Earlier, PNP chief Avelino
Razon, Jr. required the 115,000 members of the national police to learn
to shoot their service firearms so they can outshoot criminals.
The Nueva Ecija police has
been conducting the pistol course since February, with 733 of its 1,450
officers and men having undergone the training so far at the refurbished
police firing range in Cabanatuan City.
At stake in the competition
was a brand new pistol.
Sr. Supt. Napoleon Taas,
the provincial police director, was adjudged an expert for flawlessly going
through the 45 round course.
In the final stage, Taas
managed to shoot three rounds at a target-- two in the body and one in
the head -- in only 1.71 seconds. He garnered an aggregate score
of 54.07 seconds, placing him in the "expert" category.
Also adjudged as "experts"
were PO3 Remigio Sabado, Jr. with a score of 55.06 seconds; PO1 Chrizaldy
Juat, 57.03; PO3 Melchor Cruz, 57.17; and SPO2 Ernesto Espino, Jr., 59.13.
Classified as "sharpshooters"
were PO3 Freddie Cunanan, 65.0; PO3 Rodel Mañiaol, 66.03; PO2 Orlando
Villanueva, 71.59.
Ranked as "marksmen" were
PO2 Antonio Otic, 77.79, and PO1 Elmer Culala, 79.14.
Taas thanked Gov. Aurelio
Umali and other supporters for the successful staging of the shootfest.
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Hearing
of murder cases vs. leftist party-list reps reset
For lack of court stenographers,
the Guimba judge hearing the murder case against party-list representatives
Satur Ocampo and Teodoro Casino of Bayan Muna, Liza Maza of Gabriela and
former Anakpawis representative Rafael Mariano reset the proceeding to
May 22.
Judge Napoleon Santa Romana
of the Guimba Regional Trial Court Branch 31 said that local court personnel,
including the stenographers, were attending a conference in Lucena City.
The four, accompanied by
lawyers led by Romeo Capulong, appeared before Sta. Romana at 10:00 AM
last May 8.
They and several alleged
officials of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's
Army in Central Luzon had been implicated in the kidnapping and murder
of Danilo Felipe, a rebel returnee, in Nampicuan in 2001. ###
Crame
cop dies in shooting
A police sergeant assigned
at the Philippine National Police Headquarters in Camp Crame was shot dead
by an unidentified gunman last May 4.
The fatality was identified
as SPO2 Melencio dela Vega of Aliaga town.
He was busy playing tong-its,
a local card game, at the house of a certain Marlin Drona in Barangay San
Emiliano at about 9:30 am when fired upon. ###
Guimba
rice trader robbed, shot
A rice trader from Guimba
was seriously injured when shot during a robbery in Barangay Tuktukan,
Guiguinto, Bulacan last May 6.
The victim, Angelito Feliciano
Alipio 42, of Oarairo St., Guimba had just boarded a passenger jeepney
bound for Balagtas, Bulacan after withdrawing P1 million from a Metrobank
branch when two men armed with pistols announced a hold-up.
Supt. Richie Posadas, Bulacan
3rd Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit chief, said the suspects
shot Alipio when he resisted. He sustained bullet wounds in the right side
of the body and left leg.
Witnesses said the suspects
immediately took the envelope of money tucked in Alipio's waist then fled
on board a motorcycle.
Alipio was brought to a nearby
hospital for treatment. ###
Boy
killed in Gabaldon road mishap
A three year old boy died
while three other people were hurt when the tricycle they were riding was
bumped by a van in Barangay Tagumpay, Gabaldon.
The fatality was identified
as Jhon-Jhon Sindac. His injured companions were Benjamin Bonagin, 20;
Benjie Bonagin, 40; and Felicita Bonagin, all of Barangay San Felipe, Laur.
The accident happened at
about 5:00 PM when a Mitsubishi Delica van driven by Ramelo B. Dizon collided
with the victims' tricycle. ###
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