LPG firm employees robbed of P50T

CEBU, Philippines - Two employees of an establishment selling liquefied petroleum gas claimed they were robbed by two motorcycle-riding men along N. Bacalso Avenue, Barangay San Nicolas Saturday afternoon.

Modern Universal Mega Gasul secretary Evelyn Dagangon, 28, of Tabucanal, Barangay Pardo and Andrew Diaz, the company driver, reported the incident to the Theft and Robbery Section of the Cebu City Police Office.

Dagangon said they came from their branch in Barangay Bulacao, Talisay City at 5 p.m. aboard their service vehicle, a multicab bearing plate numbers YBW-161 driven by Diaz.

They were bringing with them a cheesecloth bag containing P50,000 cash, two columnar log books, four notebooks containing records of daily credits and sales, paid collections, and three delivery receipts.

She said they were designated by their employer to deliver the cash and items to their main office on Osmeña Boulevard (Jones).

But when they reached N. Bacalso Avenue, front of PLDT office, around 5:45 p.m. and while waiting for the traffic signal to turn green, a man with a caliber .45 pistol approached Dagangon and pointed a gun at her head.

Dagangon allegedly tried to block the firearm through her hands but the robber opened the door of the vehicle. As a result, she fell from the vehicle giving the robber opportunity to grab the bag beside her.

The robber then boarded on a motorcycle which stopped ahead of them driven by an accomplice and then fled from the place together with the loot.

Diaz, who also served as witness to the incident, alleged that when he saw the man approaching Dagangon armed with a gun, he immediately disembarked from the vehicle due to his fear and failed to see the culprits’ faces.

Chief Insp. Bonifacio Garciano, TRS chief, said it may be a case of “hold-up me” because they have interviewed people in the area, including a mineral water vendor, who claimed they noticed no commotion the time the alleged robbery took place.

Meanwhile, a woman lost P70,000 cash and P620,000 worth of jewelry pieces after her office was burglarized by an unidentified person/s at Villa Aurora, Pres. Ramon Magsaysay Ext., Barangay Kasambagan.

The victim, Jerlyn Uy, 33, only discovered the burglary around 7 a.m. Sunday when she opened her office.

Ocular investigation showed the burglar scaled on a mango tree and jumped over the fence and went inside the office of the victim by detaching three jalousie blades of the window.

Garciano said they suspected an inside job on the incident because the perpetrator seems to have knowledge where the cash and jewelry were placed. — (FREEMAN)