Chief Superintendent Oscar Calderon, Central Luzon police director, said a syndicate held retired PC Col. Benjamin Domondon and his companions, Ruel Boriagan, Mohammed Ebias and Basilio Cagungao, at gunpoint after Domondon’s group discovered that the gold bars the gang was selling them in Barangay Mambobog, Botolan town were fake.
Unknown to their abductors, Domondon was able to call his wife via his cellular phone. Police caught two of the kidnappers and rescued Domondon’s group near a bank where the retired PC soldier was to withdraw money for his ransom. — Ric Sapnu