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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Businessman nabbed for possessing 'stolen' car
By Marna H. Dagumboy
CAMP OLIVAS -- A prominent businessman was recently apprehended by police operatives at the Fontana Leisure Resort inside Clark Special Economic Zone for alleged possession of a "commandeered" car, police said Monday.
Chief Superintendent Alejandro Lapinid, director of the Central Luzon police, identified the suspect as Romeo Pangan, 47, a resident of Greenville Subdivision, City of San Fernando, Pampanga.
Pangan, a dealer of car batteries in the Central Luzon and Metro Manila areas, was arrested by the police as he was about to leave the Fontana parking area Friday night aboard the suspected stolen vehicle.
Senior Superintendent Policarpio Segubre, chief of the Angeles City police, said Pangan did not resist when the police asked him to alight from a maroon Mitsubishi Estrada L-200 pick-up truck. Police said the truck was reported as stolen.
Pangan told police that a former policeman, a certain Sergeant Domingo Cunanan of Magcalinis Street, Barangay Sta. Teresita, Angeles City, was the source of the "stolen" vehicle.
A report said the suspect failed to show documents pertaining to the ownership of the vehicle. The suspect denied the pick-up truck was stolen and instead blamed Cunanan.
The same report also showed that the truck's license plate was originally attached to a white Toyota RAV4 owned by a certain Excelsia Lim Milliam.
The vehicle, it was learned, was reportedly stolen while parked in front of a residential house in Baguio City.
Background
Earlier, operatives of the Traffic Management Office (TMO) in Central Luzon recovered two stolen vehicles from the home of a prominent family in Angeles City.
Senior Superintendent Eleuterio Gutierrez, chief of the TMO in the region, said the confiscation of the "hot" cars came after a raid conducted by traffic operatives at the home of the family in a posh subdivision in the city.
Gutierrez said they are now conducting a manhunt against the head of the family, whom he refused to name because it would hamper their operation.
"TMO mobile teams in the region were fanned out to various areas in Central Luzon in a bid to apprehend the suspect, who is believed to be a member of a carnapping syndicate operating in Metro Manila and nearby provinces," he said.
He said the raid was conducted by virtue of a search warrant issued by Executive Judge Bernardita Gabitan-Erum, of the Angeles City Regional Trial Court (RTC), following information that the suspect was keeping "hot" cars.
The raiding team, Gutierrez said, found at the garage of the family a white Mitsubishi Pajero and a red Mitsubishi Adventure (without license plates). Both vehicles were included in the alarm list of stolen vehicles.
He said the license plates attached to the Pajero was originally issued by the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to a Toyota Revo, owned by a certain Fidel Lopez of Mangahan, Pasig City, while the Adventure was stolen on September 10 while parked at Quinto St. in Balic-balic, Sampaloc, Manila. (Sun.Star Pampanga/Sunnex)
(October 11, 2005 issue)
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