Parañaque policemen caught up on Tuesday with two of the city’s most wanted, one of them a suspect in three LBC robberies in September last year.
Arrested separately were Saneo “Burak” Salameda, 30, and Jose “Tatang” Calixto, 25, both members of the Sigue-sigue Sputnik gang, based on reports reaching the Southern Police District.
Salameda—No. 2 on the list of Parañaque’s most wanted—is tagged in a robbery with homicide case which was captured on a security camera two years ago. A warrant for his arrest was issued Feb. 18 by Judge Noemi Balitaan of Parañaque Regional Trial Court Branch 258.
Salameda was one of two suspects in the robbery of a bakery supply store on Quirino Avenue, Barangay San Dionisio, on Oct. 10, 2012. He and his cohort Antero “Toto” Prades were accused of killing one of the workers, Norzan Abubakar.
He was captured 9 a.m. Tuesday after a brief chase. This was after someone tipped off the police that he had been spotted at Clinic Site, Barangay (village) BF Homes, Parañaque.
Calixto, who was fourth on the list of the city’s most wanted, was also arrested on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in Rosario, Batangas, after a coordinated surveillance operation conducted by Parañaque and Rosario policemen.
Calixto, believed to be part of a motorcycle-riding robbery gang, was accused of taking part in several heists involving LBC branches in the city last year. These were the LBC branches on Ninoy Aquino Avenue in Barangay Sto. Niño on Sept. 6; the Aguirre Avenue branch in Barangay BF Homes on Sept. 8 and LBC Quirino Avenue branch in Barangay Don Galo on Sept. 12.