Monday, October 30, 2006 Marital spat, not abduction By Mia E. Abellana Sun.Star Staff Reporter
A REPORT of an abduction of a woman in Salinas Drive yesterday dawn sent policemen in Metro Cebu scurrying to find the getaway vehicle.
It was not until past 11 a.m. yesterday that they learned that the driver of the getaway vehicle was the woman’s husband and that the incident was a spat, not a kidnapping.
The man turned out to be Hipodromo Barangay Captain Reynaldo Llorente and the woman he supposedly kidnapped was his wife Nimfa.
The Toyota Hilux with plate number GRC 863 was reported as the getaway vehicle by a security guard who saw the incident.
Frequent
Nimfa said the guard must have recognized her because she was always within the vicinity, bringing her children to school at the university across the street.
She added that she was a regular at the business establishments in the area.
She said it was possible that the security guard was not aware that Reynaldo was her husband because he was not familiar.
The security guard told police that the man grabbed the woman and forced her into the vehicle, prompting him to immediately report the incident at 2:10 a.m.
Road blocks
The Mobile Patrol Group immediately alerted the neighboring stations and other units.
The vehicle was spotted in Barangay Guizo, Mandaue City where the couple owns an eatery.
Police from the Mandaue City Police Station and Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) officer Crisaleo Tolentino responded to the alarm and alerted the Cebu City Police Office about the sighting.
The couple was immediately brought to the CCPO.
Private matter
Reynaldo declined to be interviewed and requested a television reporter not to air the report because the incident was a private matter.
SPO1 Serafin Asingjo, one of the MPG responders, said they were going to locate the security guard who reported the incident and find out if the couple was the same people he saw that time.
He said that since Nimfa already attested that it was her husband and that no kidnapping took place, they just needed the security guard’s confirmation until they could declare the case closed.
