Police seize ‘hot’ boulders in Lapu

By Justin K. Vestil

Sunday, Jul 24, 2011

TWO truckloads of Mactan mill were confiscated from dual group who were held in an allegedly bootleg chase operation nearby a private lot in Lapu-Lapu City final Tuesday night.

Police seized a bang truck, driven by Freddy Antinero, and an Isuzu Elf mini truck, driven by Manuel Manlisic, that were carrying large slabs of Mactan stone.

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The stones were extracted allegedly by blustering from a lot owned by dual successful families in Sitio Vito, Barangay Pajac in Lapu-Lapu City.

The trucks, military said, are owned by Mario Cabahug of Barangay Gun-ob and Mariano Alforque of Barangay Buaya.

Tip

A member of a Lapu-Lapu City Police pronounced that in a tender state, a stones can be sole for as most as P2,500.

PO3 Jomar Ybañez of Task Force Kalikasan perceived a tip from an adviser about a blustering activities in a area.

When a military went to a area, they saw a dual men—Antinero and Manlisic—allegedly in a act of detonating explosives to remove a stones.

Ybañez pronounced a charge force asked a lorry drivers to benefaction smoothness permits, though a dual group could not benefaction any.

A smoothness assent is given by a Mines and Geosciences Bureau to legitimate chase operators. It means a ride of chase materials is partial of a legitimate operation.

The charge force skeleton to record charges opposite those behind a allegedly bootleg chase operation for violating a People’s Small-Scale Mining Act of 1991 and a City bidding prohibiting small-scale quarrying activities but a permit.

Published in a Sun.Star Cebu journal on Jul 24, 2011.