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Beware
of fake
P500
bills
Counterfeit P500 bills are apparently still circulating in the island
province as two store owners in Virac found out
much to their regret last week.
Imelda Morales, 41, a native of San Miguel town, was tending to her
store-cum-eatery in barangay Concepcion at 9:30
A.M. of Feb. 7 when a certain Lea Valenzuela
bought P60 worth of fish, paying for it with a
P500 bill, which Morales claimed, turned out
later to be bogus.
The second incident occurred a day later in Gogon Sirangan when store
owner Angelina Borja, 41, accepted a P500 bill
from Yna's Videoke guest relation officer
Virginia Borromeo y Fernandez, 21, widow from
Mayngaway, San Andres. She had bought from
Borja's store soap and detergent worth P30. When
the bill turned out to be fake, the enraged
storeowner went to the police which traced the
bill to one Noli Vargas y Panti, 30, single and
also of Gogon Sirangan. Vargas claimed that the
bill was part of his winnings from a "pai
que" game at a nearby wake.
In another development, police and barangay officials raided an illegal
cockfight last week in Cavinitan but failed to
bag a single aficionado.
The team of lawmen led by Insp. Raul Destura and accompanied by barangay
kagawads Nestor Tayobana, Pio Valeza and Bong
Abundo as well as tanods Melchor Pujar, Jr.,
Joseph Upod, Celso Gonzales and Domingo Panti,
burst upon the "tupada" being held at
the residential compound of Rogelio Santos at
10:10 A.M. of Feb. 4. The bettors and cock
owners scampered away, leaving behind two dead
cocks, 2 tapes and 2 blades or "tari."
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