Burglars broke into two offices, including that of a children’s rights organization, and made off with nearly P600,000 in cash and valuables, the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) reported Wednesday.
The Association for the Rights of Children in Southeast Asia (ARCSEA) lost P300,000 in cash and close to P37,000 worth of electronic devices while the Philippine branch office of Quanta Services, a US-based provider of contractual services in the electric power, natural gas and telecommunications industries, lost two laptop computers worth more than P240,000 in addition to P3,000 in cash.
The break-in at the ARCSEA office on Acacia Street in Project 3, Quezon City, happened while it was closed for the weekend from 6 p.m. on Jan. 4 until noon on Jan. 6. According to a police report, burglars broke into the ARCSEA office by picking the lock of the main door. They then opened a cash box and took the P300,000 it contained.
They also stole a laptop computer worth P23,000, a cell phone costing P11,000 and an external DVD writer worth P3,000. At around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, another burglary was reported, this time at the Quanta Services Philippine branch office inside the International Personnel and Management Services Building on Aurora Boulevard, also in Quezon City.—Jeannette I. Andrade