CEBU, Philippines - An American national complained that they were robbed inside his house in Barangay Bitoon, Daanbantayan, northern Cebu at around 8:40 p.m. last June 28.
George Boudousque, a native of Houston, Texas who married a Filipina, reported that there was a heavy downpour when three men wearing bonnets went inside their house and poked a gun at him.
The three suspects, who remain unidentified, ordered his wife, Josephine to hand over their money and other valuables.
The robbers fled after getting their P800 cash and a Nokia cellphone worth P7,500.
The suspects cut through the barbed wire-fence and easily went inside the open door.
This is not the first robbery involving masked men in the towns. Just two days before this Daanbantayan incident, two men wearing black ski masks and black clothes also robbed and shot a seaman inside his house in Sitio Tunga, Barangay Cantu-od, Balamban.
Vincent Recamora died after he was shot several times at close range. He was watching television in their living room when the masked men forcibly entered the house by breaking the back door.
He tried to fight it off with the robbers, who fled with some P300,000 cash. It was their income that day from their stall at the market.
The police have yet to focus on a particular angle, but according to SPO3 Arvie Banate, it is possible that the robbers may live in the same area and knew their victims well.
This is because the robbers apparently knew that it was impossible for Recamora and his wife to deposit their earnings that day, a Sunday.
The police now have a lead on possible suspects. But Banate refused to disclose specific details until they can make arrests. – THE FREEMAN