SAN CARLOS CITY, Pangasinan – The family of the late Mayor Julian Resuello was extremely disappointed over the still unresolved slaying of the Resuello patriarch almost 11 months ago.
Julier Resuello, who succeeded his father as mayor of San Carlos City, said the gunman, identified as Cesar de Guzman, alias “Cabesa”, including the mastermind, are still at large despite the efforts of the Philippine National Police.
The elder Resuello was gunned down inside a jampacked auditorium on April 28 last year and died two days later at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Manila.
Police Provincial Director Isagani Nerez confirmed that operatives tasked to track down de Guzman in various parts of the country returned home empty handed.
So far, P2 million was already made available to any person who can furnish the police any information that could lead to the arrest and prosecution of the suspect.
Only Angelito Soriano, a native of Malasiqui, had so far been arrested and is now being tried for double murder and multiple frustrated murder before the Regional Trial Court.
But Cabesa is the more important one because he holds the key that could unlock the mastermind.
Nerez said the manhunt against de Guzman by elements of the Task Force Resuello is still continuing. (PNA)
ALAMINOS CITY, Pangasinan - Twenty eight persons engaged in illegal fishing were apprehended within the city’s coastal waters here yesterday.At around 6 AM, twelve crew members of a fishing boat that bore a marking “FERRY” and owned by a certain Robert Castro were arrested for using active fishing gear known as “boli-boli” with fine mesh net.
Public Order Safety Office (POSO) Chief Mar Rabaja identified the crew members as Jerry Sulayao, (boat captain), Jonathan Tagas, Sifriano Estabillo , Freddie Agimbag, Wing Tabines, Algie Encio, Iniego Tonido, Marvin Inocenio, Diosdado Colon, Macmac La Torres, Manuel Gutierrez, Raffy Inaya - all resident of Poblacion, Sual, Pangasinan.
Rabaja said joint elements of POSO-Bantay Dagat, Alaminos City Police Office (ACPO), 106th PMG and PNP provincial intelligence branch were conducting a routine seaborne patrol when they spotted the fishing boat off barangay Victoria at around 6 AM.
Confiscated from the boat were a set of active gear with fine mesh net and twelve styrofoam containing assorted fish worth around P14, 000 and then brought to the ACPO for proper disposition. Read more
DAGUPAN CITY – Four students of the Dagupan City National High School were arrested by the police on Thursday inside their campus after being accused by their classmate of having gang raped her on Tuesday night.
The victim, a 14-year old girl and in second year, told the police that the suspects invited her after classes on Tuesday in barangay Lucao where they had a drinking session, till she passed out.
The incident allegedly happened in the house of one of the four suspects, with ages ranging from 15 to 17 years, and were in second and third year at the DCNHS.
The girl suspected that his co-drinkers put a sleeping tablet in her glass so she passed out.
She recalled that when she woke up the following day, she had no clothes on.
Being minors, all the suspects were entrusted by the Women’s and Children’s desk of the Dagupan police with the City Social Welfare Office.
Authorities at DCNHS said the incident was a police matter since the supposed crime happened outside the school campus.
Nevertheless, Dr. Teodora Nabor, DCNHS principal, called on parents of the four suspects to come to the school to discuss with them measures that they will do about the matter. (PNA)
Cadaver of Abra mayor’s wife, a victim of political violence, arrives
BANGUED, Abra – The cadaver of the wife of a re-elected mayor of Abra, who was gunned down during the counting of votes here last May 17, arrived in Barangay Ubbog, Bangued, Abra fromManila last Tuesday.
Brenda Crisologo, wife of re-elected Tineg Mayor Edwin Crisologo, died last Monday in a hospital in Manila while being treated of the wounds she suffered during the May 17 attack.
Mrs. Crisologo sustained five gunshot wounds in her stomach and back after being shot by a certain Totoy Buyaw with the use of calibre 45 pistol.
At that time, she was watching the canvassing of election returns from Tineg town at the fourth floor of the Holy Spirit Academy Building in Bangued.
The canvassing of election returns was transferred to Bangued, the capital of Abra, due to security reasons.
The gunman was shot and killed by responding lawmen when he returned and refused to surrender.
Mrs. Crisologo was the 11th victim of political violence in Abra.
Mayor Crisologo, who was saddened by the death of his wife, said that Brenda’s remains will be buried in her birthplace in Barangay Nabbuan, Baay-Licuan, Abra. (PNA)
SAN CARLOS CITY, Pangasinan – Lawmen scored big against cattle rustling when one thief of large cattle was killed in a firefight with the police here at dawn on Friday in sitio Mangot, barangay Mamarlao here.
A belated report from the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office identified the fatality as Robert Gonzales of barangay Balite Sur, a known lair of cattle rustles in San Carlos City.
Gonzales, a member of the notorious Bacani group of cattle rustlers was fatally hit during the brief exchange of fires between his group and the police who set up a road block in sitio Mangot.
Gonzales and his unidentified companions, who managed to escape under cover of darkness, were proceeding to barangay Balite Sur with two cows and one carabao in tow. Read more
DAGUPAN CITY – All the 16 policemen of San Manuel town, including their chief, had been relieved as of Monday as an aftermath of the slaying last June 20 of that town’s Vice Mayor Bonie Apilado.
Supt. Ricardo Tamayo, deputy police provincial director for administration, told newsmen here on Thursday that Inspector Realito Rodriguez, chief of police, and all his men were replaced by members of the elite Provincial Mobile Group (PMG) and the Regional Mobile Group (RMG).
Rodriguez and his men were ordered to report to the Police Provincial Office in Lingayen for re-training. Read more
No lead yet in slaying of Pangasinan vice mayor
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Investigators are still facing a blank wall in connection with the slaying of outgoing San Manuel Vice Mayor Bonie Apilado, 35, and the wounding of his driver Ricardo Clemente, 24, along the Maharlika highway in barangay San Vicente in Urdaneta City on Wednesday afternoon.
However, investigation by members of Task Force Apilado formed by Police Provincial Director Senior Superintendent Isagani Nerez immediately after the slaying is still going on.
Members of the task force include those from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, the intelligence and investigation branch of the Pangasinan Police Office, the PNP Crime Laboratory and the Urdaneta City and San Manuel Police.
Investigation showed Vice Mayor Apilado was talking with an owner of a car aircon shop when a lone gunman approached from behind and opened fire. Read more
ASINGAN, Pangasinan – The acetylene gang struck again in Pangasinan when they entered a pawnshop here on Saturday dawn and carted away cash and jewelry estimated to be around P3.5 million.
Investigation showed the culprits victimized the Waki Pawnshop at the Asingan Public Market owned by Lito Quintero, a resient of Carusocan Norte in Asingan.
The police said the perpetrators gained entry into the pawnshop from nearby stall by destroying its double-steel plate ceiling with the use of acetylene torch.
While inside the pawnshop, the suspect opened the vault with the use of instruments from where they took away cash, jewelry and other valuable items.
Policemen who rushed to the crime scene after being called at 9:15 a.m. that day, found a hand drill with five drill bits, one saw, one bolt cutter, one big screw driver, eight destroyed padlocks, one portable acetylene apparatus with tanks, one pliers, two steel bars, cloth, one igniter, one flash light and two cutters.
Scene-On-Crime-Operatives (SOCO) were called to the crime scene to lift fingertips. (PNA)
SAN CARLOS CITY, Pangasinan – The Police Regional Office I (PRO1) was recently adjudged as the top performer so far among 17 police regional offices throughout the country in the implementation of guidelines for project HOPE (Honest Orderly and Peaceful Election).
Police Regional Director Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil, speaking during the program “Talakayan sa Isyung Police (TSIP) here, said PRO 1 topped in the scoreboard of the Election Monitoring Action Center (EMAC) at the PNP national headquarters as gleaned from its performance from January 14 (start of the election period) to March 1.
Bataoil said this was based on the number of checkpoint established number of raids and searches conducted on suspected criminal lairs or hideouts of criminal elements and in terms of number of loose firearms confiscated.
As of March 1, PRO 1 confiscated a total of 59 firearms in various police operations, the highest as compared to the accomplishments registered for the same period by each of the 16 other police regional offices throughout the country.
The owners of these firearms were charted in various courts with violation of the Commission on Elections gun ban, among others.
Of the number, four are high-caliber firearms, all M16 armalite rifles, recovered as a result of follow up operations in the expansion area of the communist Rebolusyonaryong Hukbong Bayan (RHB) in the hinterlands of La Union.
In that operation, the top RHB leader for Pangasinan and Zambales area, Domingo Tarectecan, and his close aide, also a ranking rebel leader, were arrested. Read more
DAGUPAN CITY - Seven Sudanese students studying in Dagupan were caught by the police while conducting pot session along the beach in barangay Nibaliw Vidal adjacent San Fabian Sunday night.
The suspects, along with two Filipina lady friends, were found smoking dried marijuana leaves in a pot session along the beach, according to Superintendent Leopoldo Rivera, chief of police.
The suspects were identified as Mohamed Musa, 27; Abdul Salam, 25; Ahmad Musa, 127; Ali Bikhatem, 37; Hamet Ale, 34; Omer Mohammad Abbos; and Ramzi Naour, 37.
Their lady companions at the time of their arrest were Michelle Imbuido, 20; and Joy Imbuido, 37.
Confiscated from them were four partially burned rolled dried marijuana sticks, 26 pieces of rolling papers and 0.5 grams of dried marijuana leaves which were placed by them in white ball cap.
All suspects are now facing a case for Violation of Section II of Republic Act 9165 before the municipal trial court in San Fabian. (PNA)
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