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Carcar City official accused of maltreating boys
A Carcar City official was accused yesterday of slapping two boys and pointing his gun at them after a near-car accident in barangay Bolinawan, Carcar City. Edgardo Oca, city administrator of Carcar City, was charged before the Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas with serious misconduct, grave abuse of authority and conduct unbecoming of […]
Ecleo prosecutors receive threat
April 25, 2012
At least two of the six prosecution lawyers in the parricide case of Rep. Ruben Ecleo Jr. received threats purportedly from the camp of convicted lawmaker of Dinagat Island, Surigao del Norte. The text message read: “Paki-alert diay sa mga myembro sa prosecution panel kay nasukog maayo sila (Ecleo family) kay dako kaayo silag nagasto. […]
Prosecution lawyers in Ecleo case bare death threats
April 24, 2012
by Ador Mayol, Reporter Private prosecutors in the parricide case of Rep. Ruben Ecleo said they received threatening text messages purportedly coming for the convicted lawmaker and cult leader. Lawyers Fritz Quiñanola and Kit Enriquez who represented the Bacolod family in the celebrated case admitted receiving a text message last Saturday that parricide convict […]
Man in Facebook blackmail case pleads ‘not guilty’
March 27, 2012
THE 24-year-old man accused of blackmailing a 16-year-old Filipino-Japanese girl by threatening to post her seminude photos in Facebook pleaded not guilty to charges of grave threat and child abuse. John Jayson Antonio was arraigned before Cebu City Regional Trial Court Judge Esther Veloso of Branch 6 yesterday. Antonio, who was detained at the Cebu […]
Bully victim’s parents still hope for more witnesses
March 18, 2012
THEY find it difficult to accept their son’s death but the parents of 7-year-old bully victim Joshua Veloso can do nothing but hope that more witnesses surface to testify against the underage perpetrators. “If naa daghan nakakita, mosulti unta sila. Pero wala man, kay nahadlok man sila” (If there were witnesses, they should speak up. […]
Military says NPA lacks numbers to pose threat to Cebu
March 18, 2012
THERE is no chance for the communist New People’s Army (NPA) to reinforce its ranks enough to pose a threat to, much less “re-take” Cebu, the military’s Central Command (Centcom) said over the weekend. In a phone interview, Centcom spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Tampus said there were attempts and plans by the NPA to marshal […]
DEATH THREAT
February 11, 2012
Judge asks NBI to verify threat letter from ‘Ka Jerry’ He’s not one to discuss cases outside the court, much less grant media interviews. But yesterday Judge Raphael Yrastorza of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 14 in Cebu City made an exception and confirmed that he received a written death threat last […]
‘Criminal elements, not terrorists, are main threat to Sinulog’
January 9, 2012
Watch out for new faces in your neighborhood. And make sure that someone is left at home to guard the premises before stepping out to attend various Sinulog activities. Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said chances of a terror attack are remote during Sinulog week but it pays to be “overvigilant.” “Eternal vigilance is what […]
May 10, 2012
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