Trader, friend lose cash in carjacking
A LONE armed man carjacked the vehicle of a sales manager of a pharmaceuticals company then took close to P200,000 cash kept in the vehicle.
A LONE armed man carjacked the vehicle of a sales manager of a pharmaceuticals company then took close to P200,000 cash kept in the vehicle.
A former member of the anti-carjacking unit of the Philippine National Police (PNP), who was tagged in the bloody 2008 shoot-out in Parañaque City, has been arrested for allegedly stealing vehicles from car rental companies and pawning them to casino financiers, the PNP said on Monday.
A police official assigned at Camp Crame reportedly fell victim to car thieves in his own neighborhood. The Quezon City Police District said Chief Inspector Christian Tarun, 32, lost his Mitsubishi Strada hours after he parked it on 18th Avenue in front of his house in Barangay (village) San Roque, Cubao.
A gunman killed three people in California on Tuesday, including at least one execution-style, in a series of shootings and carjackings before taking his own life, police said.
This was how Arsenio “Boy” Evangelista described the arrest of Joel Jacinto—the last suspect in last year’s brutal killing of his son—by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) at a market in Las Piñas City yesterday morning.
The “big fish” caught earlier this year by authorities in their fight against car thieves has just gotten away.
In acquitting Jovel Entote of the charge of car theft with homicide, Judge Eleuterio Bathan of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 92 Thursday cited a police official’s alleged attempt to extort P8 million from the so-called “godfather” of carjack gangs in the country.
Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte likens to losing one’s manhood the criticism that putting a P5-million reward on the head of suspected car thief leader Ryan Yu, aka “Baktin” (piglet), amounts to a human rights violation.
The vice mayor of a southern Philippine city has offered a $121,000 reward for the decapitated head of the alleged leader of a gang of car thieves.
DAVAO CITY—Police on Monday seized 14 vehicles during a raid on a warehouse here believed owned by the alleged head of a car theft syndicate operating in Mindanao and which has links with a syndicate in Luzon. The raid, conducted on a warehouse owned by Ryan Yu in Agdao District, was backed by a [...]
Seven suspected carjackers were arrested in Bulacan Monday after a vehicle they have stolen was located by authorities through Global Positioning System (GPS), the Bulacan Provincial Police Office (PPO) said in a report Tuesday.
Four suspected carjackers, one of whom was notorious for wearing a police patrol shirt uniform when pulling off their crime, were killed after a car chase and a shootout with police in Alabang early morning Tuesday.
A simple set of do’s and don’ts could spell the difference. This is how the Manila Police District (MPD) hopes to erase the city’s recently acquired reputation as the new “car theft capital” of the country.
