MANILA: A policeman was shot dead, allegedly by his colleague, during the Manila Police District (MPD) anti-drug unit’s Christmas party at a bar in Tondo, Manila before dawn yesterday.
Police Officer 1 Anthony Alagde, 31, of the MPD’s district special operations group, was declared dead on arrival at the Mary Johnston Hospital from a gunshot wound in the head.
He was allegedly shot by PO2 Jugiex Quinto of the MPD’s anti-drug unit. Quinto is being held at the MPD’s homicide section detention cell.
Senior Inspector Steve Casimiro, chief of MPD homicide section, said Quinto reportedly shot Alagde because the jokes apparently got out of hand at around 4am.
Female rebel surrenders
TUGUEGARAO CITY: A female member of the New People’s Army (NPA) who admitted taking part in the ambush that left eight police trainees in Allacapan, Cagayan last May surrendered to the authorities on Friday.
Citing difficult life in the mountain, Marites Alicuman, alias Ka Isabel, was accompanied by Allacapan town Mayor Leonalia Onia when she gave herself up to the authorities, according to Senior Superintendent Frank Mabanag, chief of the regional police directorial staff.
Mabanag said they are studying the possibility of making Alicuman a state witness against her former comrades who were charged for violating the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2007.
If convicted, the rebels will not be eligible for amnesty, Mabanag said.
Man arrested for extortion
ORMOC CITY: A 45-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly mulcted the brother in-law of General Leonardo Espina in this city on Friday.
Roberto Aguilar of Agusan del Sur was arrested by Chief Inspector Ibrahim Jambiran, head of the city police station 1, at the SMART Padala Center, where he was about to pick up the P20,000 he had allegedly extorted from Victor Espina.
Aside from the money, police reportedly found in Aguilar’s possession three more extortion letters including one asking for P250,000 from rice trader Gabino Sabino, P50,000 from scrap dealer Jun Odango and P100,000 from another rice trader Junjie Omega, and an icepick.
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