28 September 2005
Motorbike-riding robbers having field day here
VILLASIS – Highway robbers struck again last Tuesday in two separate incidents in open defiance of an intensified government crackdown on criminal syndicates operating in the province.
The latest incident happened in Poblacion Zone II of this town where three motorcycle-riding suspects carted away the victim’s clutch bag containing cash of some P212,000, a check worth P25,000, RCBC passbook, and his cellphone.
The victim, Reynan Aguilar, 24, married, of barangay Don Montano in Umingan, told police that before the incident he had encashed two checks worth P212,000 from RCBC bank Carmen branch. While driving northward in a BMW car with plate No. TWD 176 registered under the name of Herminio Rabang, the suspects on a Honda TMX 155, abruptly overtook and blocked his way.
Two robbers fled southward.
On the same day, a softdrinks sales agent claimed to have been held up in Sta. Maria town by unidentified motorcycle-riding men as he and two helpers stopped to answer the call of nature.
Taken from the victim was his sales for the day amounting to some P36,000.
About two weeks earlier, an elderly couple from barangay Cabuloan in Urdaneta City were robbed of some P500,000 they had just withdrawn from a Metrobank branch in that city. Several daring daytime holdups were also staged in Dagupan for the last three months.
The police are looking into the possibility that the hold-up incidents are done by a single criminal group because of the similar pattern used in staging these crimes.
Most victims were bank clients who had just withdrawn their money.
Sr. Supt. Alan Purisima ordered police chiefs to assign policemen in strategic areas like the business district and schools.
In Dagupan City, two policemen in tandem are placed to constantly patrol a specific area. (DOS/PIA)
The latest incident happened in Poblacion Zone II of this town where three motorcycle-riding suspects carted away the victim’s clutch bag containing cash of some P212,000, a check worth P25,000, RCBC passbook, and his cellphone.
The victim, Reynan Aguilar, 24, married, of barangay Don Montano in Umingan, told police that before the incident he had encashed two checks worth P212,000 from RCBC bank Carmen branch. While driving northward in a BMW car with plate No. TWD 176 registered under the name of Herminio Rabang, the suspects on a Honda TMX 155, abruptly overtook and blocked his way.
Two robbers fled southward.
On the same day, a softdrinks sales agent claimed to have been held up in Sta. Maria town by unidentified motorcycle-riding men as he and two helpers stopped to answer the call of nature.
Taken from the victim was his sales for the day amounting to some P36,000.
About two weeks earlier, an elderly couple from barangay Cabuloan in Urdaneta City were robbed of some P500,000 they had just withdrawn from a Metrobank branch in that city. Several daring daytime holdups were also staged in Dagupan for the last three months.
The police are looking into the possibility that the hold-up incidents are done by a single criminal group because of the similar pattern used in staging these crimes.
Most victims were bank clients who had just withdrawn their money.
Sr. Supt. Alan Purisima ordered police chiefs to assign policemen in strategic areas like the business district and schools.
In Dagupan City, two policemen in tandem are placed to constantly patrol a specific area. (DOS/PIA)
