Amid high incidence of theft and other crimes that met him upon his assumption of office, new Tagbilaran City police chief, Senior Supt. Julius Cesar Gomez remained mum on any plan to solve the problem.
Aside from bag snatching and other forms of theft, a man as old as 71 years old was not spared from the spate of criminalities towards the highlight event of the Sandugo celebration- -the streetdancing festival on July 27.
The victim, Gaudencio Miñoza, was shot at the right side of his body when he went out of his house to check, what he noticed as, something moving nearby.
In another incident the other night, a woman who was walking along Rizal St. was stabbed by an unidentified man who first snatched her cellular phone.
In the last week of July, a number of reports on theft reached the city station of the Philippine National Police (PNP) wherein restaurant customers and shopping mall crowds were the favorite scene of criminals.
The latest incident of theft victimized one Rosita Temel, married, and a resident of Imus, Cavite, was having breakfast with her husband in a fastfood inside a shopping mall in Tagbilaran City, and was later surprised to note that her Samsung 7250 cellular phone was already gone with her cash worth 1,500 Euro and P16,000.
The other day, a diagnostic center at corner M. Parras and B.. Inting Sts. was held up by a lone perpetrator who fled with him a cellular phone and some cash.
On Sunday morning last week, a 28-year-old American national, Chery Clark, reported top police that she could hardly figure out how her shoulder bag had gone when she just placed it beside her while she was eating inside Jolibee-Marcela.
Clark’s shoulder bag contained cash worth P17 thousand, US$100 thousand, and important documents.
In another incident on July 24, the municipal treasurer of Pilar lost her shoulder bag containing cash worth P30 thousand, three cellular phones, and important documents while she was shopping at BQ Mall.
On July 23, one Mira Scarlet Pizarras reported to police that her bag was snatched along with a Sony Ericsson cellular phone, a digital camera and P1,000 cash inside it. - source: Sunday Post
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