ILOILO City – Alex Gonzaga, 65, of Barangay Pakiad, Oton, Iloilo faces an illegal gambling charge.
He was accused of being a collector for the illegal numbers game “bookies,” a police report showed.
Officers caught him soliciting bets from fellow villagers at around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Gonzaga was detained in the lockup cell of the Oton police station.
Cut pieces of paper, P976.25 worth of bet money and a ball pen were recovered from him./PN