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Thursday, September 07, 2006
Cop, detailed in Cebu, fires armalite rifle
A police officer from Western Visayas on field training in Lapu-Lapu City is now detained at the station and under investigation for firing an Armalite rifle, for no good reason.
The guard on duty at the gate, whose rifle he borrowed, is also under investigation.
PO1 Frederick Suarez, who is assigned at Homicide Section, went out of the building yesterday morning to talk with gate guard PO1 Roy Beneña.
He borrowed Beneña’s rifle and it went off, nearly hitting Beneña.
Lapu-Lapu City Police Chief Louie Oppus tasked SPO4 Rodulfo Amodia to investigate Suarez and Beneña.
Both them were also disarmed.
Suarez is in Lapu-Lapu as part of the augmentation force that will secure the Asean Summit in December.
In another incident, a Japanese man, who was with his friends inside a café on Airport Road in Lapu-Lapu City, was toying with his gun when it accidentally fired, hitting his left palm.
Kimio Tashiro, 57, was invited for questioning and eventually arrested when police found the .22 revolver in his pocket.
Police sent him to crime lab for a paraffin or gunpowder residue test. They also had the shell found at a café in Marina Mall examined.
The man is now detained at the police station.
Ibo Police Station Chief SPO4 Damiano Montebon said their beat patrol in Marina Mall called them up to say that somebody fired a gun in the area.
PO1 Roman Quidlat and PO1 Arnold Rusiana said they found Tashiro and four others seated inside Café De France, looking at them as if nothing had happened.
But one of the customers pointed to Tashiro as the one who fired the gun so they approached him and noticed his wounded left palm, blood and gunpowder burns on his pants.
They invited him and his friends to the police station for questioning.
Montebon said he already noticed Tashiro’s bulging front pocket on the way to the station.
Inside the investigating room and in front of Tashiro’s secretary Robin-son Dacula, Montebon pulled out the gun from the suspect’s pocket.
Also during the investigation, a shell fell from the left shoe of Tashiro’s companion.
The companion picked up the shell at the scene and decided to keep it.
Montebon had the shell recorded in the blotter and submitted for examination. (OCP)
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