Three persons killed in Tabuk City

Tabuk City, Kalinga - Three persons were killed in two separate incidents here recently. At around 3:30 a.m. of July 25 two unidentified gunmen shot to death Danny Garcia, 44, married, resident of Cabaritan, this city, and Cecilio Advincula, 44, single, resident of Lanna, also this city, in the compound of the Southern Bulanao Elementary School, Bulanao, this city.

Responding policemen found Garcia sprawled on the ground with a gunshot wound in his breast and Advincula who was apparently asleep on the floor of the canteen operated by Garcia had gunshot wounds in his head. Both were dead.

A team from Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) of the province recovered three spent shells of a cal. 45 pistol in the crime scene. The police said that the assailants fled the scene following the irrigation canal above the school.

Meanwhile, at around 5 p.m. of July 22 in Pinagan, Lucog, Jimmy dela Pena, 44, married and kagawad of the barangay, was struck twice with a gabyon (a type of digging tool) on the nape by his neighbor Leonard Benjok.

Police said that Benjok was motivated by jealousy believing that the victim was having an affair with his wife.

The police immediately took the suspect into custody and murder charges have already been filed against him. **By Estanislao Albano, Jr.

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Five dead in three shooting incidents in Kalinga

Tabuk City, Kalinga - Five persons were killed and three others were injured in three shooting incidents in this province this week.

At around 6 AM of February 12 in Macutay, Rizal town, Dominic Orpella Soliman, 27, Jackson Barcellano Marcos, 17, and Pedro Barcellano, 54, were going to their farm on board a hand tractor cum trailer when they were ambushed by two unidentified men.

The police said the three were killed instantly. SOCO personnel found 14 empty shells and one live bullet for a cal. 5.56 M14 rifle.

The police said they still have to determine the motive of the killing.

At around 11:30 PM of February 13, William Gonzalo, 40, was also killed while P03 Oliver Camuyot, JayR Angyuda, 17, and Fred Reyes, Jr. were injured in a shooting incident which took place in the Bradford Refreshment and Music Lounge in Bulanao, this city.

In their initial report of the incident, the police said that policemen who responded to the bursts of gunfire which emanated from the music lounge found Gonzalo, Camuyot and Angyuda sprawled on the floor with gunshot wounds. The wounds of Gonzalo were fatal, the report said.

According to the same report, the police also found Reyes hiding infront of a nearby residence with a gunshot wound in the breast and was in possession of a cal. 45 Armscor pistol with an empty magazine.

Citing their initial findings, the police said Camuyot and some companions were drinking at one table when all of a sudden and with no apparent reason, Reyes who was drinking at another table stood up and shot Camuyot hitting him in the left and right thighs.

The police also said that Gonzalo and Angyuda were hit by stray bullets.

The report did not say who shot Reyes.

The police reported that they found nine empty shells and a misfired bullet of a cal. 45 pistol and seven slugs in the crime scene and another empty shell of a cal. 45 pistol in the place where Reyes was located.

At around 3:35 PM of February 14, Reynante Anog, 40, married, farmer and former kagawad of Dilag, this city, was shot dead apparently accidentally in his residence in Bulanao Norte, this city, by a 13 year old neighbor.

According to police investigation, the victim placed a loaded cal. 9mm on their kitchen table and then went to brush his teeth in their sink which is more or less three meters away.

At this point, the boy who just entered the kitchen held the gun and accidentally squeezed the trigger causing the gun to fire hitting the victim in the arm and exiting through his left armpit and entering his breast. Anog did not reach the hospital alive. ** By Estanislao Albano Jr.

Murder in Tabuk might rouse tribal grudges

Tabuk City, Kalinga - Local police investigators are looking into the possibility the tricycle driver found dead on the driver's seat of his tricycle at Purok 7, Bulanao, this city, 8:10 AM of November 8, was killed because he was mistaken to be a member of the Naneng tribe. Tabuk City OlC-Chief of Police Romulo Danglose said that according to their initial findings, victim Salvador Carpio, 42, married, presently residing at of Purok 6, Bulanao, used to live in Balani, Lucog, this city, and spoke the Naneng dialect fluently although he was an immigrant.

Incidentally, according to a source, Carpio had transferred his family to Bulanao after their house in Balani was destroyed by a landslide in August 6,2006. The victim who himself was injured in the landslide, lost two of his children in the tragedy.

Danglose said that based on descriptions given by witnesses, they have identified Primo Binay-og as suspect in the shooting to death of Carpio and police investigators are now trying to establish the motive of revenge for the shooting to death of relatives Noel and Jose Binay-og by alleged Naneng gunmen on June 29, 2005 at Maledda, Ipil, this city. Danglose said that the Binay-ogs and the Nanengs were feuding over a parcel of land.

The Sadanga tribe to which the Binay-ogs belong, however, deny a hand in the killing of Carpio even as they expressed willingness to perform the sapata to clear themselves. The sapata is an indigenous ritual whereby a person who is being suspected of a crime solemnly avers his innocence under pain of harm befalling himself and even his family if he is lying.

Several persons who were not members of either warring tribe have been killed on mistaken identity during tribal wars here in recent years.

The shooting of Carpio was the first of three violent incidents occurring in the city since last week.

Around 8:55 PM of November 11 Estabillo Galamto, 17, resident of Purok 5, Bulanao, Bemie Balicao, single, laborer, also of Purok 5, Bulanao and Adrian Dayawon, 23, single, student of the nearby Kalinga-Apayao State College and resident of Paligatto, Balawag, this city, were walking along the Provincial Road on their way to Hilltop, Purok 6, Bulanao when shot one after the other for still no apparent reason.

Galamto was killed, 17, Dayawon was injured and Balicao who was also shot once escape unscathed.

Initial police investigation show that three were accosted by two men in front of the National Irrigation Administration compound. One of the two men then shot them at close range. His companion was unarmed. Scene of the Crime Operative from the KPPO recovered three empty shell for a caliber 45 pistol in the crime scene. Danglose said the investigation has been stalled because Balicao could not give any useful information while Dayawon is still recuperating in the hospital.

Dawn of November 14, Reynaldo Dugayon, 32, married, a farmer who also buys and sells gold, and a resident of Bullalayao, Pantikian, Balbalan, this province, was shot dead in his room at the Las Vegas Lodge in Dagupan Weste by still unidentified gunman for still unknown reason. The victim was shot twice as evidence by two empty shells recovered in the room by police investigators.

Investigator Paul Payan told the media that Dugayon had checked in at a different hotel but transferred to the Las Vegas Lodge sometime in the evening where he, together with gay waiter George Garcia, 20, and waitress Mary Ann Crisologo, 17, drunk in the Los Angeles Videoke House on the third floor of the hotel from 8 to 10:45 PM.

Quoting a Jerry Alvendo, 26, the cashier of the hotel, Payan said that from the videoke bar, the three transferred to the room of the victim in the second floor where they ate and then continued drinking until 3 AM when Garcia and Crisologo left Dugayon.

It was around the time when Garcia and Crisologo left the victim's room that shots rang out in the hotel. Danglose said that robbery has been ruled out as a motive for the crime because a cash of 29,750.00 was found in a pant pocket of the victim. Danglose said they are now looking into information the murder is connected with a hold-up which took place in Gaang, Balbalan on October 28 wherein the victim was the suspect.

Danglose said the information appears to tally with the statement of witnesses in the first two videoke bars where Dugayon had a drink that evening and also at the Las Vegas Lodge where a man wearing a black leather jacket was following him. **By Estanislao Albano Jr., ZZW, Nov. 18, 2007

Kalinga now has crime lab

Tabuk City, Kalinga – In what is seen by many as a shot in the arm of crime fighting in the province, a crime laboratory has just been established here. It was inaugurated September 26,2007.

Inspector Joel Bentican, chief of the laboratory, said that pending the appointment of more personnel and provision of more equipment, they will be initially performing paraffin tests and authentication of the identity of motor vehicles in addition to conducting scene of the crime operation (SOCO).

Bentican said that examinations which their office cannot perform will be forwarded to the regional crime laboratory and to the national crime laboratory in cases of DNA testing.

Bentican believes that with the presence of a SOCO in the province, the criminal elements win lie low because they will have to contend with the scientific means of investigating and prosecuting crimes.

Kalinga Philippine Nation Police investigation chief PSI Joe Baday also said that the coming of the crime laboratory will be a great.

To prove his point, Baday informed that a SOCO could only be done on the murder of Vice Governor Rommel Diasen last April three days after and two days after the bloody demolition in Malapiat, Rizal last June because the SOCO team came all the way from Camp Dangwa in Benguet.

Baday said that while it is true that local police investigators are also trained in evidence gathering and handling, the SOCO are specialists and with them, “the proper way of gathering, preserving and transporting of evidence will be observed.”

“With the SOCO team already here, we can go together to the crime scene instead or waiting for them to come later,” Baday said.

Cordillera crime laboratory Chief Dalmacio Magastino, who was present during the inauguration on September 26, informed the media that there are five slots for the crime laboratory available this year to beef up the seven initial manpower of the office.

He also sees the addition of a forensic chemist to the team in the near future. With the addition of three such items for the Cordillera “one of whom will most likely be assigned to Kalinga.”

He informed that the establishment of the Kalinga laboratory is part of the program of the national leadership of the PNP Crime Laboratory to set up crime laboratories in all the provinces adding that the Kalinga crime laboratory is the second opened this year. **Estanislao Albano, Jr.

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