Survivor identifies suspects in failed Marikina robbery
By Non Alquitran
The Philippine Star 08/29/2005

Police are investigating reports that two inmates who staged a daring robbery try left a young businessman and his driver dead and the wounding of his wife in Marikina City on Aug. 15. The survivor of the incident, Sarah Young, 21, positively identified the motorcycle-riding suspects in a rogue gallery kept by the Marikina City police.

Last Friday, Young and another witness, positively identified one of the suspects during a confrontation at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City said Senior Superintendent Felipe Rojas, intelligence chief of the National Capital Regional Police Office.

"They were very positive of the suspect," said Rojas of Young and her witness. "But the warden claimed that the inmate was inside his cell when the incident occured."

Rojas said he will accompany Young and her witness this week at the Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa City for another confrontation with the other suspect.

The NCRPO intelligence chief refused to identify the two inmates but claimed they were involved in the rash of robbery cases in Marikina City in the past. Prior to his new assignment, Rojas was the police chief of Marikina City for two years.

NCRPO chief Director Vidal Querol ordered Rojas to pursue his investigation and leave no stone unturned until the "truth would be unearthed." "This practice of inmates being allowed out of jail to pull off robberies are reported in the past, so we must dig deeper whether Young is telling the truth," said Querol.

Young, her husband, Edward, 24, and driver, Glenn Magbanua, 47, were on their way to deposit to another bank the P300,000 they withdrew from the China Bank in Brgy. Sta. Elena on Aug. 15 when two motorcycle-riding men blocked their L-300 van along E. Santos Ave., in Brgy. Concepcion Uno.

Magbanue stepped on the gas prompting the suspects to open fire.

When the vehicle skidded to a halt, some 30 meters away, the suspects boarded their motorcycle, parked it near the van and fired additional rounds at the occupants.

Young and Magbanua sustained multiple gunshot wounds and died on the spot. Sarah sustained injuries but survived the attack. Police said the Youngs owned a drugstore in Bayan-Bayanan.

The suspects escaped towards San Mateo but failed to get the money because residents of the nearby squatters area started rushing to the site of the incident.

****masyado nang delikado ang mag withdraw ng pera sa bank.....mga tsikoteers, ingat po......napakasama na ng panahon dito sa pilipinas