Robbers hogtie QC store staff, remove CCTV

Robbers took over P800,000 in cash, gadgets and watches from a cell phone and trading store in Novaliches, Quezon City, on Tuesday night.

Police said at least three armed men barged into Rencas Cellshop and Trading Inc. on Quirino Highway corner Santa Barbara in Barangay Gulod around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

The shop’s security guard had gone home while the branch manager, four stay-in workers and the boyfriend of one of the workers were about leave when the robbers entered.

Three workers were made to lie facedown and were hogtied while the others were locked inside a room.

Along with their loot, the robbers also took the store’s CCTV and its hard drive and cut the phone lines. —Jhesset O. Enano