No suspects yet in gas station hold-up
The police has still to identify the suspects in the hold-up of the Shell gasoline station in Timawa Avenue, Molo early last week.
Earlier, driver-collector Anthony Biscayda pointed to a certain Gilbert Hortillas in the police rouge gallery as the culprit. It turned out however that Hortillas is a detainee at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Ungka, Jaro.
Nevertheless, the police presented Hortillas together with around twenty other inmates to Biscayda for positive identification. It was then that Biscayda failed to positively identify the supposed suspect.
Biscayda said Hortillas' face has a semblance to the man who allegedly made the hold-up. However, Hortillas's body built and hair did not match the description earlier made by Biscayda. Hortillas is small in built and is already bald. Hortillas has been in the jail since November 2, 2005 for illegal drug possession.
As this developed, Chief Insp. Frankie Lugo of the Molo Police Precinct expressed disappointment over the non-cooperation of the supposed victims of the hold-up.
He lamented, the victims did not issue new statements other than the statements contained in the police blotter.
He said the investigators also could not get new information from them for unknown reasons.
Lugo said, the four suspects did not wear bonnets at the time of the hold-up yet none of the supposed victims could remember their faces.
The management of the said gasoline station also could not categorically declare the money carted away from Biscayda.
The police is also puzzled with the statements made by Biscayda to the police investigators. In Biscayda's first statement, he claimed there were two suspects who boarded his van and declared the hold-up. He was also asked to proceed to the Shell Gasoline Station in Molo. Biscayda made the statement without the presence of his manager Tessie Pama.
However, on his second statement Biscayda claimed he was on his way to Molo Shell Gasoline Station van when a taxi suddenly stopped in front of them and two people alighted and went to the passenger side and declared the hold-up.
It was only on the following day that Biscayda and the rest of the supposed victims went to the Molo police station to have the incident blottered. They locked themselves at the Shell office when police arrived at the scene of the incident. Police is also puzzled why Pama wanted to have her name included in the blotter. Pama wants to make it appear she was with Biscayda at the time of the alleged hold-up.