In the Philippines the workplace can be rather violent. Whether your co-worker feels slighted or you go out with them to drink and an argument erupts it is always best to watch your back.
Hi, my name is Jodilo Ontel Patua. I work in construction. It's a hard enough job without my coworkers teasing me all the time. Finally I had all I could take. While they were watching television I snuck up on them and stabbed them with a kitchen knife. Now they won't tease me anymore.
When his co-workers were making fun of him, a 33-year-old construction worker allegedly got mad and stabbed two men in Barangay Pahina Central, Cebu City on Monday evening, November 20, 2023.
The incident took place inside a construction site along Colon Street at around 8:30 p.m.
A police report showed that the Carbon Police Station received a call about a stabbing incident in the area at around 9:50 p.m., which personnel immediately responded to.
The suspect was identified as 33-year-old Jodilo Ontel Patua alias “Jojo,” a stay-in construction worker at the site and a native of Barangay Kambagahan, Bais City, Negros Oriental.
Patua allegedly began running amok while wielding a kitchen knife and stabbed two of his coworkers because he could not take their teasing.
One of the victims was identified as 39-year-old Alberto Aranez Pajar, a plumber and also a stay-in employee at the site. Pajar is a resident of Bitoon, Dumanjug, Cebu.
Police Major Miles Damoslog, chief of Carbon Police Station, told CDN Digital in a phone interview that Pajar was watching television when he was suddenly approached by Patua.
The suspect then allegedly stabbed Pajar in the stomach.
After this, a security guard came to attempted to subdue Patua, which resulted in him also getting stabbed.
The security guard was identified as 41-year-old Pejy Doydora Salon, a resident of Sitio Zone Sayote, Paknaan, Mandaue City, Cebu.
Damoslog said that the workers were allegedly making fun of Patua, which caused him to get angry and run amok.
Hi, my name is Rodolfo Hinalas Jr. I work at a carwash. One of my coworkers is very rude. When he gets drunk he thinks everyone is his enemy. He even disrespected my sister. We settled our differences but I still held a grudge. After that we got into an argument so I stabbed him dead.
A carwash boy in Quezon City was arrested for allegedly stabbing dead his co-worker due to an unsettled grudge, according to the report of James Agustin on "Saksi."
A video showed the one man assisting another man who was staggering as they entered the barracks of the car wash shop in Barangay Greater Fairview in Quezon City where they worked.
The events that followed could not be seen but one man was found dead with stab wounds in different parts of his body inside the barracks.
The SOCO, Scene of the Crime Operatives, found a knife in the area.
And through the CCTV, the police identified the last person who was with the victim alive, the other carwash boy Rodolfo Hinalas Jr.
"Our victim went home to his work place where he was staying. Our suspect was also there who held the victim to make him sleep in the quarters. There was a small argument and it ended in a heinous crime," said Police Major Don Don Llapitan Quezon City Police District CIDU (Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit).
The suspect was arrested in a follow-up operation conducted along Commonwealth Avenue.
It was found out during the investigation into the crime, the motive of the crime was an old grudge. There was an altercation between them last month after the victim showed disrespect towards the sister of the suspect. However, the incident was settled between them.
Llapitan said that also based on their investigation the suspect had pent up anger towards the victim.
"I did that because what a rude person he really is. If he wasn't already a rude person, I wouldn't have stabbed him. He's too much. When he's drunk, everyone is his enemy," said Hinalas.
The suspect is facing murder charges.
Hi, my name is Benjamin Eñigo Kangke. I was drinking and offered my coworker a drink. He refused so I tried to hit stab him with a knife. But I missed. So he picked up a steel bar and hit me in the head. He then took my knife and stabbed me a few times until I was dead.
A 56-year-old construction worker tried to kill his colleague and drinking buddy Wednesday night, August 23.
But Benjamin Eñigo Kangke was the one who ended up dead after he failed to hit Joseph Lauriat Udtohan with a knife.
According to Patrolman Rondel Padilla, desk officer of the Adloan Police Community Precinct, Udtohan, 42, managed to retaliate by hitting Kangke with a steel pipe. He later on took Kangke’s knife and used this to stab him on the chest which caused his immediate death.
The incident happened at around 9 p.m. in their bunkhouse in Sitio Tagaytay in the mountain barangay of Adlaon in Cebu City.
But it was only reported to the police at 10 a.m. the next day, Thursday, August 24, when other construction workers saw Kangke’s lifeless body.
Padilla said that Udtohan left Kangke at the bunkhouse and went home to his family in Sitio Hagnum, Barangay Lusaran in Cebu City.
Kangke is from Sitio Buhing Tubig in Barangay Buanoy, Balamban town.
Both men are stay-in workers at a construction site in Barangay Adlaon.
Quoting the outcome of their initial investigation, Padilla said that Kangke was drinking liquor with Udtohan at the bunkhouse Wednesday night.
At around 9 p.m., Kangke reportedly offered another drink to Udtohan but the latter already refused to take the drink.
Angered, Kangke allegedly tried to stab Udtohan with a knife, but he missed. Udtohan found a steel bar which he used to hit Kangke on the head.
Kangke sustained lacerations on the right side of his head, the police report showed.
With Kangke already injured, Udtohan reportedly took the knife that he was holding and used this to stab the construction worker, hitting him on the left side of his chest, which caused his immediate death.
During their investigation, Padilla said that Udtohan claimed that he killed Kangke in self-defense.
He surrendered to Barangay Captain Agustin Partolan at the Lusaran Barangay Hall on Thursday.
Udtohan is now detained at the Adlaon Police Community Precinct while they prepare for the filing of a homicide charge against him.
Hi, my name is Filex Rimobatac. I work in construction with a man named Cyrus Lucsin. One night he came to my bunkhouse and we got into a heated argument about drugs. So I pulled out a gun and shot him in the head and killed him.
A construction worker was shot dead allegedly by a coworker after an argument inside a bunkhouse in Barangay Nangka, Consolacion, Cebu on Thursday morning, August 17, 2023.
Personnel from the Consolacion Police Station responded to a shooting alarm inside the Belize North Subdivision at around 8:00 a.m. on Thursday.
Responding officers proceeded to the area and found a lifeless man lying on the floor with a gunshot wound on the left side of his head.
Police identified the victim as 36-year-old Cyrus Lucsin, a construction worker, and a native of Negros Oriental.
The victim was rushed to the Eversley Childs Sanitarium and General Hospital but was declared dead on arrival by the attending physician.
The police identified the suspect as Filex Rimobatac, who also works in the same construction company and a resident of Barangay Luyo, Barili, Cebu.
Police said that the victim went to the bunkhouse of the suspect where a heated altercation ensued.
At the height of their argument, Rimobatac allegedly shot the victim in the head and then fled.
Police Staff Sergeant Rechie Gilleran, investigator at the Consolacion Police Station, told CDN Digital in a phone interview, that the suspect was the only one seen leaving the bunkhouse after a witness heard a gunshot.
The police recovered from the crime scene a 9 mm empty shell, drug paraphernalia such as aluminum foil, three improvised lighters, an improvised tooter, and one piece plastic sachet containing several small plastic sachets believed to be used for repacking illegal drugs.
Gileran said that they are eyeing drugs as a possible motive behind the shooting as they suspect that Rimobatac could be a drug seller due to the drug paraphernalia found inside his bunkhouse.
Hi, my name is Fausto Quiño. I work construction pouring cement. One day I was told I messed up and made a mistake while pouring. The foreman scolded me and said I might be let off at the end of the month. But we don't make mistakes on purpose. If he let me go that would mean I could not pay for my child's schooling. So, instead of doing my best for the rest of the month and talking to him I did the next best thing. I killed him while he was sleeping by hitting him in the head.
A 58-year-old laborer or construction worker killed his 57-year-old foreman using a steel pipe inside the construction site at the Mandaue Reclamation Area in Mandaue City at past noon today, August 14.
This was after he was scolded for committing a cement-pouring mistake at the construction site and was told that he might be laid off at the end of the month.
Police Major Andy Michael Roque, Police Station 1 or Centro Police Station chief of the Mandaue City Police Office, in an interview with CDN Digital, said that construction worker Fausto Quiño attacked the foreman Isidro Cameros, while he was taking his break and sleeping at the construction site at past noon today.
Quiño of Balilihan town in Bohol Province told Police Major Roque that he was angry at the foreman, Cameros, of Barangay Tisa, Cebu City, for scolding him and for telling him that he might lose his job by the end of the month.
(He will remove me from my job even though there is no clear mistake. Because at work, we don’t purposely do things to make a mistake.)
(He will lay me off from my job, so this means, that I can no longer pay for the schooling of my child.)
According to Police Major Roque, that an angry Quiño got his chance at revenge when he chanced upon Cameros at a noon break for workers at the construction site.
He said that Quiño saw Cameros sleeping and saw a 2-meter long pipe nearby.
Roque said that Quino then allegedly attacked Cameros hitting him several times in the head.
The police officer said that Quiño tried to flee the construction site but the other construction workers pursued, caught him and turned him over to the security guard, who in turn turned him over to the responding policemen.
Hi, my name is Richard Cardenas. I work as a farmhand. I got into a dispute with a coworker. So, of course, I barged into his tent while he was resting and stabbed him to death.
A 28-year-old farmhand was stabbed dead by his co-worker while resting in his tent in a rice field in Barangay Guis-Guis San Roque, this town, on Wednesday afternoon, July 12.
Police identified the victim as Romar dela Peña, a resident of Barangay Santa Catalina Sur, Candelaria, Quezon.
He died on the spot due to stab wounds.
The suspect Richard Cardenas, alias “Burdado,” fled.
Police are eyeing work dispute as motive in the killing.
Hi, my name is Dario (not my real name). My crotch was itching so I gave it a good go even taking out my penis to make sure the itch got relieved. But my coworker Rosana (not her real name) saw it and she got mad. She filed a complaint and the police were called. The police said I was infatuated with Rosana and whipped it out to show her as a sign of arousal. But that is ridiculous. Why would I do that at work?
A 30-YEAR-OLD construction worker was arrested by police in Compostela town, northern Cebu, after he allegedly showed his genitals to a female worker of a food manufacturing firm on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022.
Dario (not his real name) was arrested by Compostela town police after Rosana (not her real name) filed a complaint against him.
Police said the incident occurred at the food manufacturing firm’s plant in Barangay Lupa.
Lt. Andrew Rellanos, Compostela Police Station chief, told SunStar Cebu the incident occurred around 9 a.m. on Friday.
Rosana told police that she was approaching the firm’s Bundy clock with two of her male colleagues and Dario.
Both Dario and Rosana work at the same firm.
After she clocked in, Rosana was surprised when she saw Dario pull out his penis in front of her.
(The suspect held his penis and showed it to the woman. He even fondled it in front of her.)
Out of anger, Rosana immediately called the police.
Dario was arrested following the incident.
Dario, according to police, denied Rosana’s allegations.
According to Rellanos, Dario told them he was just trying to relieve an itch in his genitals, but he didn’t realize Rosana had seen him do it.
But Rellanos said Dario may have been infatuated with Rosana and decided to show his genitals to the woman as a sign of arousal.
Rellanos said they will charge Dario with violating Republic Act 11313, or the Safe Spaces Act, otherwise known as the Bawal Bastos Law.
Dario said his relatives are set to post bail on his behalf.
Hi, my name is Gretchen Malalad. I have 30 cats and my maid takes care of them. But unbeknownst to me she was actually trying to poison them with muriatic acid. The other helpers alerted me to her suspicious behavior and I was able to catch her in the act with CCTV. She said it was tedious taking care of all the cats. It seems you can't trust your help even if they have been with you for two years.
Former ABS-CBN reporter Gretchen Malalad has shared a disturbing incident on social media, accusing her former house help of attempting to poison Malalad's 30 adopted cats with muriatic acid.
In a TikTok video, Malalad accused her former helper, who had been with her for two years, of attempting to poison her 30 adopted cats with muriatic acid.
In the said video, the maid can be seen holding a mug while going inside the cat's cage. Malalad claims that the mug contained muriatic acid and she secretly poured it into the pets' drinking bowl.
Malalad's other helpers alerted her about the former maid's suspicious behavior, revealing that the pet cats' drinking bowl had been contaminated with muriatic acid.
The incident prompted Malalad to file a complaint with the barangay in Manila where the maid lives.
According to Alladin Cuevas, the village chief of Barangay 189 in Manila, a recent hearing revealed that upon review of the CCTV footage, the maid admitted to attempting to poison the cats.
"Hindi siya makapag-deny pero siguro alam niya sa sarili niya na nahuli siya kasi 'yung mug po, nasa mug. 'Yung muriatic pinipilit nya inumin pero 'di naman niya inilalapit po kasi nandoon po nakalagay muriatic," Cuevas said, adding, "Naging sagot niya, wala naman namatay na pusa."
He said the helper also expressed concerns about the tedious nature of caring for the cats, citing instances where she got hurt.
"Yung pananakit, 'yung kalmot at kagat ng pusa. Sabi ko natural 'yan, kasi nag-aalaga ka," said Cuevas.
Malalad and her former helper are scheduled to meet in a barangay hearing on December 10.
Malalad said she is resolute in her decision to pursue legal action when she returns from a trip abroad.
Efforts to obtain the helper's side were unsuccessful as she was unavailable to give an interview Tuesday.
Hi, my name is Nelson Loriente. I work as a security guard. While on the job I got in to an argument with my coworker Jeffrey Pandas Camo over the handheld radio. He was so angry he pulled out his revolver and shot me. So, I pulled out my shot gun and blasted him dead.
A security guard was killed in a gunfight with a colleague while on duty in a solar power plant in Barangay Gueset here on Saturday, December 9.
Police identified the victim as Jeffrey Pandas Camo, 39.
Investigation said the suspect, Nelson Loriente, 51, and Camo were on duty when a heated argument erupted over their service handheld radio.
At the height of their argument, Camo drew his caliber. 38 revolver service firearm and shot Loriente, who returned fire with his service 12-gauge shotgun.
Both sustained bullet wounds were taken to the Nazarene General Hospital in Lingayen, this province, where Camo was declared dead.
Loriente is recuperating in the hospital.
Hi, my name is Kevin Lapu-Lapu and I work as an errand boy. My brother also works as an errand boy for the same family. My brother got angry and flipped off our employer's eldest son who is 14. His mom punched him in the stomach in retaliation. That made me very angry. So in revenge I took their youngest son who is 7 out for a tricycle ride. When we were alone I put my knee to his stomach and covered his mouth until he stopped breathing. I left his body in a grassy area and returned home like nothing happened. But eventually everyone found out what I did.
A 27-year-old family errand boy allegedly killed the seven-year-old son of her employer in Leyte, Leyte to avenge his younger brother following an altercation a week ago on December 14.
The suspect, Kevin Lapu-Lapu, faces a kidnapping with homicide case for killing the victim, who went missing on that day in Calubian, Leyte.
The Calubian Municipal Police Station found out that the victim was taken by the suspect, a resident of Sitio Kamalig, Barangay Palid 1, Leyte, Leyte, on board a tricycle on that day, as shown by surveillance footage.
The next day, December 15, the suspect reported to work as if nothing happened.
Police took the suspect into custody and during questioning, he revealed that he brought the victim to Sitio Lawad, Barangay Palid 1.
A search and retrieval operation was launched and the body of the victim was found in a sloping and grassy area in Sitio Lawad.
The suspect admitted that he killed the victim by covering his mouth and pressing his knee against the victim's stomach to avenge his younger brother who also works as an errand boy in the victim’s family.
He said the victim's mother punched his younger brother after he made a dirty finger at the 14-year-old elder brother of the victim.
The suspect also admitted that he left the victim in the area and went home after the incident.
Lapu-Lapu was previously convicted of drug charges in Manila and was released after plea bargaining.
Hi, my name is Robert Tolentino. On Christmas Day I was having a drinking spree with a co-worker named Daniel and several friends. A misunderstanding occurred between Daniel and one of our other friends and they got into a heated argument. I attempted to pacify Daniel but he pulled out a knife and stabbed me several times until I was dead.
A laborer was stabbed dead while pacifying his co-worker on Christmas Eve during a drinking spree in Barangay Concepcion here.
Police identified the victim as Robert Tolentino, 32, single, of Barangay Concepcion.
Investigation said the victim and the suspect, “Daniel,” 42, a co-worker of Tolentino, together with other friends, were having a drinking spree when a misunderstanding erupted between Daniel and one of their companions.
Tolentino tried to pacify Daniel but he drew a knife drew a knife and stabbed him several times in the body.
The victim was taken to the Doña Marta District Memorial Hospital in Atimonan, Quezon where he was declared dead.
Daniel fled on board on motorcycle and took the murder weapon with him.
Police are conducting manhunt against the suspect who face appropriate charges.
