Charges dropped against Ba’deshi on mine permit

By Gina Dizon

BONTOC, Mountain Province – Court charges have been dropped against a Bangladeshi and two drivers for not being able to present ore transport permits pursuant to section 53 of the Mining Act of 1995 have been dropped, the Office of the Prosecutor here bared.

            Earlier, Bontoc Association of Barangay Chairmen (ABC) president Bryan Bellang reported to the Bontoc Police Station Feb. 1 this year, a white Isuzu dump truck loaded with suspected mineral ores and mine tailings.  

            Said vehicle was registered to RojohnPio of RAR Aggregates and driven by a certain Jeffrey Beadoy, 38.

            Police reports  said the truck parked  at sitioBalitian, Bontoc Ili, waited for a blue elf truck  loaded with sacks  of suspected mineral ores  and mine tailings  believed to have come from Mainit, Bontoc, and had these transferred to the dump truck.  

            The blue elf truck registered to David Bitao was impounded at the Bontoc PNP.

            Beadoy said a Bangladeshi hired his truck after his (Bangladeshi)  blue elf  truck malfunctioned  at  Guinaang Bontoc.   

            Bellang’s Ford Fiera was earlier sideswept by  a blue elf truck .

            Police reports said Beadoy and  his  helper identified as   Rommel  Guminiguin did not  present ore transport  permit  making Bontoc police to impound their vehicle. 

            Beadoy said  a certain  Bangladeshi named  Melon AnikeHossain, 33,  married and with residence at  Naguilian, La Union  hired  his  truck  to transport the mineral ores  and mine tailings  from Mainit  to sitioBalitian  to the waiting  Isuzu dump truck.