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Thursday, April 28, 2005
Beauties engage in carjacking
By Lino dela Cruz
Iligan correspondent
OZAMIS CITY -- Local authorities warn the public that carnapping groups in Mindanao have recently penetrated this city by employing sexy females to carjack and drive stolen vehicles.
Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog, in a Wednesday meeting with the police and the peace and order council of this city, issued the alert that an Isuzu Crosswind with plate numbers KCT-672 with copper-orange color and owned by Dr. Teofisto Cebedo was stolen last week.
This was followed by another carnapping incident five days later where another Isuzu Crosswind colored black and owned by Jimenez town, Misamis Occidental Vice Mayor Norma Lim, was stolen.
The police said that in both cases, witnesses saw a "sexy female" within the vicinity of the parked vehicles before these were stolen--one in a parking lot of a hotel restaurant where a wedding reception was being held and the other outside an exclusive school here.
Parojinog said the police have heightened security measures with the flagging down of vehicles in checkpoints along the highway leading to the province of Misamis Occidental.
He also coordinated with authorities of nearby cities like Iligan and Pagadian and the province of Lanao del Norte.
Despite having a "sexy female" carnapper as a clue, investigators still face a bank wall, the mayaor said.
Meanwhile, in Marawi City, two carnapped vehicles--one a Mitsubishi Adventure and the other an Isuzu Crosswind--were recently recovered by a joint effort of the Philippine Marines and the Lanao del Sur provincial police.
Authorities turned over the stolen Mitsubishi Adventure to its owner Alan Edgar Elango of Cagayan de Oro City while the Izusu Crosswind to lawyer Bai Macaburo of Marawi City.
(April 28, 2005 issue)
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