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Sunday, April 18, 2004
3 stabbed, 2 mauled in Maharlika
By Ernie N. Olson Jr.
THREE persons were stabbed and two others were mauled in five physical injury incidents reported perpetrated in the Maharlika Livelihood Complex starting this year.
Sources, however, disclosed that more were allegedly victimized in a larger number of other crimes, which have not been reported to the police.
This was aside from a recent armed robbery and grave threat case involving a rookie jail guard, who poked a gun and threatened his victim, after the latter tried to chase him all the way to the pedestrian overpass stairway beside Tiong San Harrison in the wee hours of the morning of Thursday.
This jailguard found himself on the wrong side of a jailcell, after he was charged for robbery with intimidation, illegal possession of firearms, a violation of the Comelec gun ban, resisting arrest and disobedience to an agent of a person in authority before the City Prosecutor's Office over the weekend.
The City government and police officials already focused their attention for a while at this government-owned and operated building recently, after a spate of violent crimes.
Official records of the Baguio City Police Office revealed the first to be victimized in the series of stabbing incidents at Maharlika this year was Herbert Olarte, 23, single, a resident of Tuding, Itogon, Benguet.
Olarte was stabbed by a still unidentified assailant at around 4:00 a.m. of January 3 this year.
The second victim was Marco Onogon, 27, single, a resident of Dominican Extension, who was also stabbed by an unidentified attacker who vented his ire on him for still undisclosed reasonsat around 12:15 a.m. of Feb. 1.
The latest to be victimized was named as Jeremiah Charepang, 17, single, of Lower Rock Quarry. He was stabbed by an unidentified assailant at around 4:00 a.m. of Feb. 13.
Among those mauled in that same building this year was Charmane Lleva, who was victimized at around 12:00 midnight of March 7.
This was followed by the mauling of another victim, who was not identified by the police, but who was also victimized in that same building at around 12:30 a.m. of March 19 this year.
So far, not one person has reported to be a victim of murder or homicide.
Authorities showed their concern for the series of crimes to persons committed in Maharlika after these started when the building was opened to business establishment owners and operators who set up sing-along bars, billiard halls and music lounges, especially in the rooftop area, which has now been considered to be the "newest red light district in the city" that even caters to minors and teenage clients.
(April 18, 2004 issue)
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