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19 March 2024

Samsung rings from where no mobile has before: Thief shoves phone up his body

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MANILA - A 19-year old jobless man must have thought he had committed a perfect theft when he took the cellphone of one of his drinking buddies at a bar in Metro Manila’s Pasig City and hid it in his backside, literally.

While there was some commotion at Raimers Grille and Bar, on MH del Pilar Street, Barangay Palatiw, over the lost Samsung smartphone, the device rang and it was found out to be coming from Alfredo Amorosa.

Amorosa, 19, jobless and a resident of the city’s Barangay San Miguel, reportedly asked the group of his alleged victim, Rafael Castillo, if he could join them in their drinking spree at the bar at 3am on Monday, June 10.

Castillo had agreed, saying that Amorosa appeared to him as someone good-natured and harmless, according to Police Officer 3 Rolando Anselmo Jr, of the Criminal Investigation Unit of Pasig City Police, who investigated the incident.

Anselmo, who told journalists that Amorosa has been brought to Pasig City Police Station for detention and was charged with theft, said the music at the bar was stopped before a waiter announced that Castillo’s cellphone was missing.

He added that a little after the bar management made an announcement that every customer and waiter would be frisked, the cellphone was discovered inside Amorosa.

Gartejo told the police that the suspect boarded a waiting tricycle parked outside the church’s gates where his two companions were waiting.
 
Drunkard mauls mom, 2 siblings

Police in the central Luzon city of Cabanatuan are preparing charges of frustrated parricide and doubled attempted homicide against a jobless man who mauled his mother and two siblings when they refused to give him money for liquor.

Chief Superintendent Eli Depra said that village watchmen in Barangay Aduas Norte nabbed Alfredo Singayan, 30, and brought him to the police over the weekend after his 47-year-old widowed mother, Melinda, and siblings Randy, 27, and Rizza, 22, complained that the suspect beat them up with a bamboo trunk.

“The victims said the suspect got infuriated after his mother declined to give him money to buy liquor,” the tabloid ‘People’s Journal Tonight’ said on Tuesday.

The victims sustained body injuries and were brought to the Dr Paulino J Garcia Memorial Research and Medical Centre for treatment.

Chained mentally ill son dies in blaze

A mother is facing charges of child abuse for putting a chain attached to a post on her 15-year-old mentally ill son, who died when their house in the southern province of Compostela Valley caught fire while she was out, radio reports said.

“The victim was bound with a dog chain inside their house, to prevent him from wandering around the town,” Senior Superintendent Camilo Cascolan, provincial police chief, said, quoting the mother. “The incident happened as the mother went out to buy some food.”

He said the blaze started in the kitchen, where a wood-fed stove was left burning and unattended after Rita Salvaleon left her shackled son inside their home in the province’s Monkayo town on Sunday, June 9, to run some errands.

He added that arson investigators led by Senior Fire Officer 1 Joseph Crucio reported that the blaze started at around 7.45pm, when the stove burned out of control and gobbled up the house, and was put out by the firemen at 8pm. 

Salvaleon has been arrested and is now facing charges of violating Republic Act 7610, or the anti-child abuse law, for the death of her son Reybert, whose remains were found among the debris in the aftermath of the unfortunate incident.