After triple hits, QC robbers meet bad luck on road

Was it instant karma? Two robbery suspects figured in a road accident, exposing themselves to the police, minutes after victimizing three pedestrians in Quezon City Wednesday night.

John Ryan Tayo and Ernest Lozada, both 23 and residents of Valenzuela City, were arrested by a policeman and village watchmen who were initially alerted to a mishap involving a motorbike and a car on Quirino Highway shortly after 9 p.m.

The two men were found carrying a .38-cal. revolver, a lady’s bag and two sachets of suspected “shabu,” according to Supt. Ariel Capocao, commander of the Quezon City Police District’s Talipapa station.

Capocao said two of the victims, Catherine Dioso and Franz Josef Pasion, were robbed in separate incidents on Production Street in Barangay Sangandaan.

Around 7 p.m., Dioso was walking with her two children to buy cell phone “load” at a nearby store when two men on a black motorcycle with no license plate took her phone at gunpoint.

An hour later, Pasion was walking home on when he was also held up by a bike-riding duo, who took off with his cell phone and fled toward Quirino Highway.

Upon reaching Novaliches, the motorcycle riders rear-ended a car and had an argument with the driver, drawing the attention of SPO1 Herbert Lumabi and several village watchmen.

When the two men were brought to the Talipapa station, Dioso and Pasion were also still there reporting the robberies and recognized the suspects.

The recovered bag was traced to the third victim, Maria Hanna Perez, who showed up at the station and tagged Tayo and Lozada as the men who robbed her on Road 7, Project 6.