Victim Dionisio Mongado, 26, residing in Bagong Silang, Caloocan City, said the girls aged 16 to 18, together with three young males, boarded his white Mitsubishi Lancer taxi (PYR 505) along Jose Abad Santos Street in Tondo, Manila and asked to be brought to Caloocan City at around two early yesterday morning.
Station Intelligence and Investigation Division (SIID) chief Superintendent Dionisio Borromeo said the suspects, who turned out to be armed with a caliber .38 revolver and fan knives, announced the stick-up upon reaching the Iglesia ni Cristo church along Mabini street in Caloocan City.
Mongado said the robbers fled on foot after divesting the taxi driver of his jewelry and P1,800 in cash, his earnings for the day.
At the police station, the victim told probers he never thought the suspects would rob him because most of them were good-looking and were apparently wearing expensive clothes.
"They even casually talked in Taglish (Tagalog-English)," the driver said.
Borromeo said the suspects’ arrest may not be long in coming after the victim identified two of them in a police rogues’ gallery.
Caloocan City police Follow-up Section chief Inspector Marcelo Mariano and his men, on Borromeo’s orders, have been set out to find the culprits.