Burglars hit pawnshop

Police are hunting down the unidentified suspects in a pawnshop and a trader’s house burglary in Valenzuela City Saturday wherein in jewelry, cash and other valuables amounting to more than a million pesos were taken away by the culprits.

VY Domingo Pawnshop located at 35 Pio Valenzuela street in Barangay Marulas, was reportedly divested of assorted jewelry and other valuables when the robbers, who gained access to its vault room through the roof, destroyed the iron safety vault using an acetylene torch.

Inspector Salvador dela Cruz, Valenzuela City police Station Investigation Branch (SIB) chief, said the robbers broke into the pawnshop by tearing down its galvanized roof and scaled down to the vault room using ropes. The burglary, he said could have happened at midnight or in the wee hours of the morning and was only found out by the pawnshop employees when they reported to work at about 8 a.m. The incident, Salvador added, was only reported to the police at around 1:30 in the afternoon on that same day.

In another break-in Saturday, businessman Ricardo Angeles, 72, of 15 Barangay Isla, Valenzuela City, also lost cash and expensive jewelry to unidentified thieves amounting to some P700,000, police said. The suspects reportedly passed through the window of the victim’s house by destroying its iron grills.

Once inside, the robbers scoured the master’s bedroom of valuables and discovered the safety vault reportedly containing P400,000 and $500 in cash, a Rolex wristwatch with an estimated value of P200,000 and a gold ring worth P50,000 and other important belongings.

The suspects, failing to open the P18,000-safety vault, reportedly decided to bring it with them.

Police are conducting follow-up investigation for the possible identification and apprehension of the suspects in the twin robberies.