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Philippines' Illegal Gambling Lord Faces Arrest19 September 2002SAN FERNANDO CITY, Philippines: " Suspected big-time jueteng lord Melchor Caluag, alias Ngongo, will find himself facing two more warrants of arrests for illegal gambling after he emerge from the hospital where he is recuperating from gunshot wounds he suffered from an attack here last Monday. "Superintendent Sonny Cunanan, city police chief, said the police had filed two more cases of illegal gambling against Caluag before the shooting incident. "…While Caluag has been pronounced out of danger, he has remained at the intensive care unit of St. Luke's Hospital in Quezon City where police officers have been securing him. "Last Monday, Caluag and Trinidad were supposed to meet with two individuals at a pizza outlet near the Mel-Vin building which Caluag owns. "The two persons, however, failed to show up, and as Caluag and Trinidad were going out of the pizza parlor, two men fired at them frontally at least six times…" |