Cebu City bar fight: Man, who planned to file complaint, gets complained on instead, ends up behind bars
Three men, who were caught fighting inside a bar, are behind bars at the Abellana Police Station this morning, July 8, 2023. | Paul Lauro
CEBU CITY, Philippines — He called the police after two men allegedly threatened him inside a Cebu City bar, but the police ended up hauling all three of them to jail.
William Christsheen Lañojan Jr., 29, told CDN Digital that he was the one who called the police but then when he arrived at the Abellana Police Station to file his complaint he was instead put inside a jail cell.
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Cebu City bar fight : Complaint filed
But Police Captain Mark Don Alfred Leanza, chief of Abellana Police Station, said that Lañojan was arrested and detained because the owner of the bar filed a complaint for disturbing the peace and order in the establishment.
The other two arrested and detained at the Abellana Police Station were JM Dela Cruz Abelar Jr., 35, and Jonathan Amisola Habang-Unay, 34.
Leanza said that investigation showed that they received a call requesting for police assistance at 7:20 a.m.
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Cebu City Bar fight: 3 men involved
Leanza said that when policemen arrived at the bar, they found three men engaged in a physical fight.
All three were also found to be intoxicated.
They then separated them and brought two of them at the police station while the third one, Lañojan, also followed them.
Police Staff Sergeant Joel Ian Lamela, investigator of the Abellana Police Station, described all those involved in the fight as gay men.
Leanza said that they detained the three men after the owner of the bar filed a complaint against the three for disturbing the peace and order of his establishment.
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Confused when he was arrested
Lañojan, for his part, said that he was confused after he was included in the complaint when he was the one who complained against the two men whom he fought with.
He said he was there as a complainant.
He said that the fight started when two men, whom he did not recognize, allegedly tried to say something bad about him.
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‘Storya nga mauyonan’
“Mga storya ra nga wala mauyonan,” he said.
(He said something that I did not like.)
Lañoja confronted the person and then the physical fight started.
Lañojan said that he called the police earlier after the two men allegedly threatened him.
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File a complaint
Police Captain Leanza said that anyone of the three men, who were detained could file a complaint especially since all of them suffered slight injuries in their fight at the bar.
Those arrested were detained at the Abellana Police Station pending the filing of alarm and scandal charges against them.
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