Airport cops recover violin stolen from traveler

Airport police recovered yesterday an expensive violin stolen from a Taiwanese business executive who had just arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 Saturday afternoon.

Yen Chin Yang sought the help of airport police to find the violin that was stolen from him when he put the instrument, which was inside a black carrying case, in a pushcart along with his other belongings as he waited for a vehicle to fetch him.

Yang approached airport police chief Col. Francisco Diño, who immediately dispatched members of the mobile patrol checkpoint section, headed by Lt. Nestor Dugan, to assist Yang in recovering his violin at the NAIA greeters lounge.

At the greeters lounge, Dugan and his men searched for the violin and asked the people waiting for their relatives there if they had seen a black carrying case.

Some of them called the attention of the airport police, saying that three men were trying to force open a black case at the corner of the lounge. As the police went to confront the three men, the suspects ran away, leaving the black bag with the violin still intact.  – Rudy Santos