At the height of the deadline for filing of candidacies for local positions, two local newsmen grabbed the spotlight as they engaged in a scuffle that was caught on camera and aired on television.

Jaime Aquino, publisher of a local tabloid, and fellow mediaman Allan Sison, former station manager of DZRH Dagupan, got into a brawl at the Commission on Elections office in Dagupan City Wednesday when they crossed paths.

Sison allegedly resented an article written by Aquino in his newspaper calling him (Sison) a fake newsman.

Aquino landed in the hospital with a broken nose while Sison was invited to the police station for questioning and charged with physical injuries.

Aquino, who at that time was with three-year old son, received  more  punches than he can deliver to Sison,  ending up bloodied in the mouth and nose.

Sison, who practices martial arts, was unscathed.

Their colleagues said there has been bad blood between the two since Aquino wrote in a tabloid that he interviewed two victims of extortion who tagged Sison and another newsman as the culprits.

That case spurred hot exchanges between the two in another radio station where Sison accused Aquino of coaching the complainants for them to embarrass him and the other   newsman. Sison vehemently denied the accusation.

Aquino was the same Pangasinan newsman who went to the Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) headquarters where he presented himself as a former altar boy of Archbishop Oscar Cruz of the Lingayen Dagupan Archdiocese, and whom Aquino accused of being gay and a womanizer at the height of the senate investigation on jueteng in an obvious attempt to discredit the outspoken and highly-respected Church leader.

Aquino’s malicious claims fell flat when he failed to recognize the archbishop as the man talking to him at the CBCP headquarters.

Aquino was later accused of publishing a scandal sheet called “Banat” that headlined a provincial board member of Pangasinan as the “father of drug lords” and ridiculed certain corrupt officials.

PART 2 OF THE DRAMA

Meanwhile, Aquino is being tagged as the principal suspect in an alleged attempt on the life of Sison who claims to have survived an ambush that happened at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday at the intersection of Jose De Venecia Highway and Tapuac-Lucao road.

Sison reported to the police that he and fellow employee of Love Radio were unscathed when the car they were riding, a Honda Civic color green with Plate No. ADL 664 was shot three times with the bullets hitting the left side of the vehicle near the driver’s seat.

The gunman used a Caliber 45 pistol.

Superintendent Mateo Casupang, deputy chief of the Dagupan police, said Sison executed an affidavit stating that he saw Aquino near the scene when the incident happened.

The police, using Sison’s affidavit, will file a case against Aquino on Saturday.      

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