MANILA, Philippines -- Police held three suspected robbers early Tuesday, hours after they allegedly took a delivery van containing some P2 million worth of electronic products, cash and checks along C-5 Road in Taguig City, an official said.

Jose Javier, 35, and Venancio Villanueva, 47, were arrested in their supposed hideout in Blumentritt, Manila, around 2 a.m., said Senior Superintendent Camilo Cascolan, Taguig police chief.

Cascolan said they also arrested the van’s driver, Jesus Lihaylihay, after he allegedly admitted participation in the purported robbery-hijacking.

He said police have been hunting for another suspect, a certain Guyong.

Cascolan said Lihaylihay was driving an aluminum van (ZLN 299) near a gasoline station on C-5 Road around 11:30 a.m. Monday when three men flagged him down and forcibly took the vehicle at gunpoint.

He said the van contained accessories for Sony Play Station Portable game console worth P1 million, P389,000 cash, and P600,000 worth of checks.

The driver, the police chief said, claimed that the suspects immediately fled toward the South Luzon Expressway.

But during interrogation, Cascolan said, Lihaylihay confessed that he just made up the story with Javier and Villanueva.

He said the driver’s admission led to the arrest of the two.

Operatives of the Taguig police station went to a village in Calamba City, Laguna, where the suspects reportedly hid the van, but failed to recover the stolen vehicle and its contents, Cascolan said.