BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Police arrested 133 suspects allegedly involved in illegal gambling in Negros Occidental during a 24-hour campaign on September 7.
Forty-three others were also apprehended by the police in highly urbanized Bacolod City on September 6, bringing to 176 the total number violators nabbed in two days of police operations.
Of the arrested violators in Negros Occidental, PLt. Judesses Catalogo, provincial police spokesman, reported that one of them serves as an illegal gambling operator, while 132 others bet collectors.
In a statement, Catalogo also noted that “tong-its” was the most prevalent type of illegal gambling subjected to police operations with 18, 8 illegal operations of Small Town Lottery (STL), and 8 other forms of illegal gambling.
On the other hand, PLt. Col. Sherlock Gabana, spokesperson of the Bacolod City Police Office, reported that the arrest of 43 illegal gambling violators in Bacolod City, also yielded P4,701 in cash bets.*
