Friday, June 19, 2009

Tabuk City police foil rob try

TABUK CITY, KALINGA - The police of this city foiled a robbery try of the Anytimecash Sanglaan pawnshop along Mayangao Street when the robbers who have already successfully dug a tunnel underneath the establishment abandoned the attempt.

Acting on an intelligence information they received that robbers were tunneling under an unidentified downtown establishment through a drainage canal, the police investigated and found the newly dug tunnel under the pawnshop with all the equipment used by the robbers for the digging and for gaining entry into the establishment and opening the vault when the opportune time comes.

The tunnel measured 13 feet long and three feet in diameter which ends under the establishment.

The police kept watch on the establishment which is some 75 meters away from the entry point at the outlet of the drainage canal along Daguitan Street at the Abogado Creek since the night of June 3.

When the robbers did not return until morning of June 8, the police concluded that the robbers had caught wind that the tunnel was being watched by law enforcers and abandoned the planned heist.

The police exposed the aborted robbery attempt on June 8 by digging at the doorstep of the pawnshop in full public view. They recovered the following equipment from the tunnel: two shovels, one bolt cutter, one hydraulic jack, three improvised chisels, one insecticide spray and a black bag containing five plastic water containers and candies.

The police believe that the would-be robbers are members of a locally organized crime group which has been victimizing business establishments in the province and even as far as Baguio City.  **BY Estanislao Albano,Jr., ZZW