Wednesday, April 30, 2008 (Philippines)

Gun isn't there, then it's there. Spot the difference in these two photos taken of slain robbery suspect Nelson Gutierrez outside the Rural Bank of Cebu South in Carcar City. Top: no gun; above: there it is. Police explained the gun fell into a ditch and they put it back where it originally was. Carcar cops also moved the evidence and body as “safety precaution and to secure the area.” Crime scene experts may disagree but police are confident about the case since the suspects were caught in the act and seen by several witnesses.(Photographed for Sun.star by Rey Campaña) THE robbery group reportedly led by a former member of the Mindanao-based Kuratong Baleleng Gang is being linked to the two robberies that recently occurred in the cities of Cebu and Carcar. Senior Insp. Michael Anthony Bastes said witnesses in last Friday’s P400,000 cash heist on the two employees of a money-changing shop inside a mall and in the foiled robbery of Rural Bank of Cebu South, Inc. in Carcar City last Monday, tagged Roy Fernandez and his group as responsible. Judging from the two incidents allegedly pulled off by the group, Bastes said it confirmed the intelligence information he received from his sources in Mindanao that the Roy Fernandez Robbery Group is already operating in Cebu. [full story]