By Cherrie Anne E. Villahermosa
Variety News Staff

A 46-year-old woman landed in jail for threatening to shoot Gov. Benigno Fitial and his secretary for supposedly “stealing” her money.
Encherina Suka was arrested on Friday for disturbing the peace and for making a terrorist threat.
She was brought to Superior Court for a hearing yesterday afternoon before Associate Judge David A. Wiseman, who imposed a cash bail of $2,000.
Suka’s counsel, Assistant Public Defender Malik Edwards, requested for a bail modification.
Wiseman allowed Suka to be released yesterday but ordered her to return to court today at 9 a.m. for the bail modification hearing.
The government was represented by Assistant Attorney General Joseph Taijeron.
Suka said she is single, has no job and no permanent address.
She was convicted of child abuse or child neglect on Aug. 6, 1999. She was also charged with assault and battery but the case was dismissed. In 2000 she was charged with criminal trespass but this case was also dismissed.
According to the police affidavit, on April 20, at 10:09 a.m., Women’s Affair Office staffer Remedio Seman Buniag received a phone call from Suka.
Suka wanted to speak to the governor’s secretary or the governor himself.
When the staffer told Suka that the secretary was in a meeting with the governor, the caller told the staffer that “I’m going up to the governor’s office to shoot the secretary and the governor because the governor is stealing my money.”
The staffer asked Suka if she was making a threat. She responded: “The governor is stealing my money” and hung up the phone.
The staffer, through caller ID, wrote down the telephone number of the caller and reported the incident to the police.