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Vol. XXI No. 1

March 14, 2001

Virac, Catanduanes

Other News

Bgy. councilor in hot water for mauling boy

A barangay kagawad in Bagamanoc faces criminal and administrative sanctions after he allegedly mauled a 14-year old boy last week.

In its report to PNP provincial director Supt. Freddie O. Panen, Bagamanoc police identified the victim as one Arnel Arandea y Vega, an out-of-school youth of barangay Salvacion.

The report said that the boy was taking care of a carabao at about 3:30 P.M. of March 6 when the animal got loose and wandered into the farm of kagawad Remegio Santos y Evangelista, 57, married. The angry councilor reportedly whipped the boy with a nylon rope and then punched hin twice on the right ear and at the back of the head.

Meanwhile, it seems that the declaration of PNP headquarters that illegal gambling has been licked may be all hot air after all following last week's arrest of a `lotteng kubrador' in a poblacion barangay.

PO2 Lino Obias and PO2 Whelming Escaro collared Antonio Talan y Guerrero, 45, jobless and a resident of Palnab del Norte, while the latter was in the act of collecting bets near the chapel in barangay Gogon Centro. Confiscated from him were P510 in bets, a bondpaper with number combinations written on it, and the Yamaha V50 used by the suspect.