A game-fowl aficionado holds his fighting cock as he calls a friend while waiting for the cockpit in Barangay Gusa, this city, to open on Saturday. (PHOTO BY CONG B. CORRALES)
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By Shiela Mae Butlig
Correspondent .

A man who ratted out the incoming police to the gamblers in an illegal cockfighting has been arrested for “obstructing justice.”

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Police identified the tattletale as Jossie Valmoria, 32, of Barangay Nasalaban, Sta.Ana, Tagoloan town in Misamis Oriental.

On Monday, at around 2:40 pm at Zone 8 Maribohoc, Sta. Ana Tagoloan Misamis Oriental, personnel of the Tagoloan Municipal Poice Station headed by Insp. Tawide Galleon and Insp. Allan Oniana under the supervision of Insp. Albart Bacug Tare was about to raid an ongoing illegal cockfighting.

This after the Elmo Ragandang, barangay chairman of Sta.Ana, call upon the help of the police regarding the on-going illegal cockfighting.

In a statement release by Insp. Corrine Mae Estigoy, said upon the arrival of the Tagoloan MPS, Valmoria shouted to the illegal gamblers that the policemen were coming, the reason why some of the illegal gamblers ran and eluded arrest.

Arrested were Ignacio Emben, 31, and Julie Jay Ando, both residents of Nasalaban.

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