EPD: 4 of 6 Pasig mall robbers caught on CCTV camera

MANILA, Philippines - The faces of four of the six men who robbed a bank at the Robinson’s Metro East mall in Pasig City of P500,000 Friday were captured by closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, an official said yesterday.

“We are now trying to put names on the faces captured in the CCTV footage. We are looking at several groups who are using the same modus operandi,” Eastern Police District intelligence chief Superintendent Remus Medina said.

He added they are also checking if the robbers are the same ones who staged the heist last March at a moneychanger shop in the Robinson’s Galleria mall in Quezon City.

Medina said the two other robbers who drove the getaway vehicles also remain unidentified.

Earlier, EPD director Chief Superintendent Miguel Laurel said the 10-minute robbery was caught by the mall’s CCTV cameras but the faces of the robbers were “blurred.”

Edwin Nartea, a bank teller was about to deliver the money to an armored van parked outside the mall when the three robbers struck at about 11 a.m.

Laurel said one of the two security escorts tried to shoot it out with the robbers but ended up being shot in the left leg and left shoulder. At gunpoint, one of the robbers then grabbed the bag containing the money from Nartea before rushing outside.

Security guard Lotildes Domingo, who was manning a grocery, tried to reach for his service firearm upon seeing the fleeing robbers, but he too was shot in the arm.

Laurel said the three robbers then boarded a waiting white Hyundai car (PWN-834) and proceeded to Midtown street in Barangay San Roque, Marikina City where a gray Mitsubishi Adventure was waiting for them.