CALAMBA CITY, Laguna — Police operatives here have arrested two suspected thieves in connection with two robbery incidents here last week.
Senior Police Officer 1 Nicanor Panghulan disclosed that cases of theft were filed at the office of chief city prosecutor Miguel Noel T. Ocampo here last Friday afternoon against two suspects — Marlon Toledo Imperial, of Barangay Uno, and a certain Nick, a minor and residentof Barangay Halang, both in Calamba City.
According to Panghulan, the two were arrested upon complaints by two victims of stolen items left inside their car which was forcibly opened while parked at a fast-food establishment at the Crossing in Barangay Uno here last Wednesday evening (November 22).
He said Maria Rica Shela Alcala, 40, businesswoman lost her iPhone 6 worth PHP25,000 while Aliza Bibat Ruiz, 39, lost her iPad worth PHP15,000; OPPO cellphone worth PHP 13,000; NWORLD activation card worth PHP 4,000; passport, Voter’s ID, and other pertinent documents left inside their car with the windows bashed by the two thieves.
Both victims are residents of nearby Barangay Lecheria also in this city.
Panghulan further disclosed that Nick was turned over to the City Social Service and Youth Development Office after the inquest procedure for showing a document as minor while the other is now detained at the city’s custodial cell while waiting for trial.
Superintendent Sancho Celedio, Calamba City Police Station officer-in-charge said he has already aletrted other units of the city police force against other suspected car thieves (“bukas-kotse”), who are victimizing innocent people and destroying properties through their modus operandi.
Similar incidents of car widow-smashing were reported on November 7 when a Singaporean engineer was victimized while taking his breakfast at a fast-food center in a Barangay Makiling mall, and so was a Chinese businessman while in a business meeting at the SM City Calamba mall on November 15. (Zen Trinidad/PNA)
