ILOILO CITY, (PNA)- Just after they robbed the collector of a lending firm , the two holdup suspects went on a marketing chore in the public market in Zarraga, Iloilo only to be spotted by the victim and chased by the police but made good their escape.
Police report said Jerry Solinap, 28, of Sta. Clara, Oton, Iloilo and a collector of Seatown Lending , was onboard the service motorcycle from a collection sortie when held-up by the two knife-wielding suspects in Brgy. Sambag, Zarraga, Iloilo.
The suspects divested Solinap’s belt bag containing P8,000 cash collection including his cellular phone before they sped away onboard the victim’s service motorcycle which they commandeered a get-away vehicle.
Incidentally, the holdup victim spotted his attacker inside the Zarraga public market while in a buying frenzy. He then informed the town’s PNP which immediately responded to arrest the suspects.
No less than the provincial director of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office Senior Supt. Cornelio Salinas who happened to be in town also joined members of the Zarraga PNP in responding to the area but the elusive suspects made good their escape from the pursuing cop.
Meanwhile, a man from Batad, Iloilo was arrested following a checkpoint operation in Estancia, Iloilo the other day.
Senior Inspector Lorenes Losaria, chief of the Estancia Municipal Police Station, said the suspect Emmanuel Valenzuela was onboard the motorcycle bearing no plate number when flagged down by cops manning the checkpoint.
The suspect also failed to present his driver’s license before the police.
Losaria said nine live ammunitions of M14 rifle were also recovered inside the tool box of the motorcycle following an inspection.
Valenzuela will be facing criminal charges for the violation of Republic Act 8204 or Illegal Possession of Firearms and Ammunition while being detained at the lock-up cell of the Estancia PNP station.