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Monday, May 12, 2003
Carnap gang strike again in SF City
By Tomas S. Noda III
SAN FERNANDO -- They never learn.
A motorist claimed the management of the two giant malls SM City Pampanga and Robinsons Starmills in this city seem not to have learned from past carnapping incidents committed against their customers.
"Bakit kasi kailangan pa yatang hintayin ng mga malls na yan ang pagpasa nung ordinansa sa konseho? Puwede naman nilang gawin ang parking ticket system kahit walang pasabi ng mga konsehal (Why do these malls have to wait for the ordinance to be passed by the council? They can implement the parking ticket system even without the councilors telling them to do so)," Ricric Mendiola, a jeepney driver, said.
Until now the two malls still do not employ parking ticket systems thus resulting to another carnapping case Thursday morning.
San Fernando Police OIC Supt. Elvis Diaz reported that a blue-colored Mitsubishi Adventure van with plates CSS-951 was stolen last Thursday while parked at the SM mall parking lot.
The incident is the 12th carnapping case recorded committed in San Fernando so far this year, five of which were perpetrated in SM and two in Robinson's.
Diaz identified the driver and car owner as Alex Dejarme, of San Marcelino, in Zambales.
Dejarme claimed that he left his van unattended at the SM parking lot at 10 a.m. Thursday and discovered it missing 45 minutes later.
As of press time Saturday, the car remained unrecovered.
With the series of carnapping incidents inside the two malls, many concerned citizens are demanding that a parking ticket system be implemented on the two establishments similar to malls in Metro Manila.
Only last month, two vehicles were reportedly carnapped in Robinsons Starmills in only 12 days interval.
A proposed ordinance requesting the two malls to implement "free parking ticket system" is still pending at the City Council. Councilor Raul Macalino sponsored the ordinance last March.
Among the 12 reported carnapped vehicles in San Fernando this year, only one has been recovered.
(May 11, 2003 issue)
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