Crips member yields, owns up to 2 crimes

A Crips gang member surrendered to police authorities and owned up to the killing of a Bloods gang member last year and the recent robbery of an Internet café, both in Cebu City.

The 21-year-old Albert Navarro, a resident of Duterte Street at barangay Guadalupe in Cebu City, voluntarily turned himself in last Monday to Insp. Domino Garcia Pelecio, chief of police of Talibon town in Bohol.

The Talibon Police turned Navarro over to Cebu City Police director Patrocinio Comendador who in turn presented him to the Cebu media yesterday afternoon.

Navarro said that, after committing those crimes, he went into hiding at a place of a friend in Tubigon but then he got bothered by his conscience and this drove him to yield to the authorities and confess his crimes.

Navarro admitted that he was responsible for the shooting to death of a certain Cenito, a member of the rival Bloods gang, at Fuente Osmena last year. “Nakonsinsya man gud ko sa akong kaugalingon,” he said

He also revealed that he robbed an Internet café in Banawa last February but he could not recall how much money did he stole from the establishment. “Ako ra usa ang manulis,” he said.

Navarro, who failed to finish high school due he said to bad peer influence, has been a member of Crips-Banawa chapter for three years now.

Comendador, in a press conference, said the City Police’s Anti-Street Hoodlums Operating Teams (A-Shot) had been formed as a special unit to disband street gangs because of rising incidents of gang wars that rocked the peace and order situation in the city.

“The Crips and Bloods, dili pa hinuon ni sila kuyaw but we have to look forward to dismantle these groups,” Comendador said, adding that the police have already identified the gangs’ hideouts and meeting places. — Garry B. Lao/RAE