From The Inquirer

Solon’s wife loses car to thieves in Quezon City

THE wife of Pangasinan Rep. Amado Espino Jr. became the latest carjacking victim in Quezon City when car thieves took her Nissan Patrol at gunpoint the other night.

Driver Ceasar Elevazo, 46, said he had parked the vehicle owned by Pricilla Ignacio-Espino in front of Star drugstore along Visayas Avenue at 9:30 p.m. where he had gone to buy medicines.

When Elevazo returned to the car, three armed men came and ordered him to get out of the vehicle, according to PO2 Kristo John Ramirez of the Quezon City police’s anticarnapping unit.

One of the suspects then got on the driver’s seat, while the others forced him into the back seat, Elevazo told police. Ignacio-Espino was not in the vehicle, a 2005 model with plate number XRZ-620, at the time of the incident, police said.

The suspects drove around for a few minutes before they let the driver out in Barangay Baesa where the suspects left him. Elevazo said he could not remember the suspects’ faces, as well as the make and type of their short firearms.

Ramirez said Elevazo was asked to look at photos and artists’ sketches of suspected car thieves, but he was unable to identify anyone in the lineup.