NBI sets parallel probe on QC car theft slays

QUEZON City police director Chief Supt. George Regis said he welcomes the order of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima for the National Bureau of Investigation to conduct parallel investigation on the deaths of Teresa Teaño and Cheryl Sarmiento and promised to heed the secretary’s order to stop the spate of crimes in the city.

“We will open our files to the NBI and will coordinate with them, to solve the case. I welcome them because we need all the help we could get to get the suspects,” Regis told Inquirer in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

Regis in the same interview disclosed that the suspects in the Teaño car-robbery slay had been identified and their arrest is imminent.

“They are part of a big group and they will be arrested and charged soon,” he added.

Regis said he had directed his men to accept the challenge of what had been the perennial problem of the city.

“I have asked our men to make the supreme sacrifice if needed, to protect the lives of the residents of the city and the public at large,” he added.

He also said that corrective measures are already in place to make up for the lapses that made the criminals bolder.

Teaño was shot dead and then ran over by her own car by fleeing robbers who forcibly took her five-day-old Hyundai -Accent along Kamuning Road last week while she was on her way to a yoga class.

Sarmiento, on the other hand, was shot and killed by armed men along Regalado Street in Fairview, Quezon City.