The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) raised a region-wide alarm yesterday on a van owned by veteran actress Gloria Romero, which was forcibly taken by four armed men shortly before midnight Wednesday in Barangay Mariana in New Manila, Quezon City.
“We are conducting pursuit operations in known carjackers’ lairs in Metro Manila and neighboring provinces,” Inspector Angelo Nicolas said without elaborating.
A police report said Romero’s driver, Erwin Inis, was about to park the green Hyundai Starex van (ZGB-830) registered to the actress, whose real name is Gloria Gutierrez, when four gunmen approached the vehicle.
One of the gunmen reportedly hit Inis with a gun and took cell phones and other valuables inside the vehicle. The suspects ordered Inis and Romero’s grandchild out of the van, then fled with the vehicle as well as a Toyota Vios without a license plate.
The QCPD is closely coordinating with the Traffic Management Group and the police provincial offices in Bulacan and Pampanga, where stolen vehicles are often sold and cannibalized by carjackers.
Oo nga and they are really for the Starex not for the kid,maybe mas sure ang buyer sa Starex while if for the kid,dami pa negosasyon and pwede pa sila matiklo.Malaking grupo tiyak yan and mataas ang may hawak.
I heard this morning that Ms. Gloria Romero is appealing to her carjackers that they just return her vehicle back. How I wish they will grant this request.
This incident may be a wake up call to all of us to be extra careful and to all law enforcers to be extra vigilant. Since they already know where carnapped vehicles are being cannibalized they better check this places.
Buti na lang yung sasakyan lang at mga gamit kinuha, buti hindi kinidnap yung apo ni Gloria Romero. Swerte din yung driver at least pinalo lang siya ng baril at hindi siya pinutukan.
tsk tsk, mangongolekta na ata ng 13th month pay nila mga carjackers kaya naghahapit sa trabaho...ingat tayo mga peeps, tumataas tlaga mga ganitong incidents pag palapit na ang xmas season