Thieves drive off with generator set

How conspicuous could it be to steal a bulky generator set from a building parking lot?

A group of thieves managed to drive off on Monday with one such generator set worth P800,000 using an Isuzu elf truck as  getaway vehicle.

Supt. Alfredo Masculino Calama-an, deputy police chief of Pasig, said Lina Villalon, the owner of West Hills Building on Marcos Highway in Barangay Dela Paz, Pasig City, reported the theft that took place around 4:30 a.m.

At that time, the building’s guard discovered that the building’s generator placed at the parking lot in front of the building was missing.

Residents told investigators that they saw a group of men tie the wheeled generator set to the rear-end of the elf truck and towed it away.

Curiously, the generator set has the size of a small truck making the heist so obvious to anyone at the scene, Calama-an said.

The witnesses, however, thought the thieves were employees of the building so they felt no urgency to report the matter to the building guard.

A radio report said the building owner was offering a P100,000 reward for anyone who could give information about the thieves’ whereabouts.

“We are still following up the case. We are not discounting the possibility that security guard had any involvement,” Calama-an said.