Woman in BMW arrested for using fake P500

A WOMAN driving a BMW and her companion  were  arrested in Lapu-Lapu City after a lechon manok vendor complained to police that the couple paid for roasted chicken and rice with a fake P500 bill.

Police arrested Linda Aznar-Borromeo, 34,  after a car chase from Mandaue City to Mactan.

A complaint for swindling was filed yesterday in the Mandaue City Prosecutor’s Office.

The woman said she was the daughter of one of the owners of a Cebu City university.

Her companion, Randy Labra, 32, was also  arrested. He gave the vendor the  fake P500  bill in John Carlo Litson Manok last Sunday evening.

Police later found out that Labra was the subject of a warrant of arrest issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Estella Sinco in connection with a 2008 robbery.

The food vendor  flagged down a patrol car driven by Insp. Ramil Morpos to complain about the counterfeit money. Police stopped  Aznar-Borromeo’s luxury car  near the second bridge in Lapu-Lapu City.

She was uanble to show her driver’s license and car registration. She  told police that she  was a daughter of of the Aznar clan that owns Soutwestern University and the sister  of Josman Aznar. Josman is  one of seven convicts serving a life sentence for the 1997 kidnapping and killling of the Chiong sisters in Cebu City.

Labra told police the P500 bill was change they received for P1,000 used to buy lipstick in a Colon store. The couple were heading  to  Lapu-Lapu for a drinking spree and had stopped by  the store to  buy food.

The couple remain  detained at the Subangdaku police station./Correspondent Jucell Marie Cuyos