BACOLOD City – For allegedly engaging in illegal cockfighting, a man was caught in Barangay Bato, Sagay City, Negros Occidental.
Officers from the Sagay City police station arrested the 47-year-old Wenceslao Oreta at his residence on Wednesday.
Oreta was accused of violating Presidential Decree 449, or the “Cockfighting Law of 1974.”
He was nabbed on the strength of an arrest warrant that Judge Jose Meno Ruiz of the Municipal Trial Court in Escalante City, Negros Occidental issued on Sept. 13.
Oreta was brought to the Sagay City police station where he was jailed.
The court recommended a P30,000 bail bond for his temporary liberty./PN
