Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Cops nab 6 minors for attempted theft
By Ruby P. Silubrico
SIX high school students who attempted to steal some school valuables of the Cabatuan National Comprehensive High School were arrested last Sunday in their respective houses.
Personnel of the Cabatuan Police Station who were armed with a warrant of arrest issued by Judge Narciso Aguilar of the 6th Regional Trial Court on January 26, 2007 arrested six students for attempted theft.
However, the police withheld their names because they are minors.
They are now under the care of the Department of the Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
The said minors included the son of Cabatuan Municipal Councilor Reggie Nandin and his nephew.
The school watchman was the one who pointed to them.
Police record showed that at about 3 a.m. of September 2, 2006, Rodolfo Maquiling Treomucha, CCNHS watchman, while conducting roving inspection, saw a person trying to open the supply room of the school.
When Maquiling cautioned said person, suspect attacked him with a handgun of unknown caliber.
Allegedly, both were grappling when a handgun went off hitting the suspect in both legs.
Maquiling managed to escape and also saw a group, numbering more or less six persons, lurking at the adjacent building where the incident took place.
Responding persons discovered the wounded minor lying at the fence of the school and brought him at Ramon Tabiano Memorial District Hospital, Cabatuan, Iloilo.
Investigation revealed that administrators of CCNHS initiated for amicable settlement between Maquiling and the parents of involved minors.
However, after the family of Nandin filed a case for attempted murder against Maquiling, the school administrators filed a counter charge for attempted theft against their nine students who were suspects in the incident.
Of the nine, Nandin's son and another suspect who is his cousin filed a counter affidavit and were dismissed from the case.
One of the remaining seven suspects is still at large as of this report.
The parents of the seven minors are planning to initiate extrajudicial settlement with the CCNHS administrators.
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