Masked Robber Robs Copra Buyer

Masked Robber Robs Copra Buyer

By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr,

Maasin City, Southern Leyte-An unidentified man wearing a black mask entered AnistarTrading in brgy.Ibarra,this city, at past one in the afternoon during the recent Friday and robbed a female cashier with an estimated cash money of P295,000.00 more or less of different denominations.

This was the disclosure of SP02 Danny A. Araba, one of the police investigators who responded to an emergency call from one of Anistar’s employees.

The female cashier was identified as Helen Cadavos Faelnar, 27 years old, single, and a resident of brgy.Ibarra.

Faelnar told police officer that the masked robber who is about 5’5” or 5’6” in height and sporting a moustache was armed with a caliber 38 revolver. He entered the office and declared a hold-up.

The victim-cashier implied that the aforesaid amount of money was withdrawn from the bank to buy sacks of copra(dried coconut meat) from dealers who were mostly farmers coming from different barangays of the city. Hundred tons of copra shall then be shipped to Iligan City,Lanao del Norte,Mindanao,where an oil manufacturer will processed the raw coconut meat into canned oil for commercial purposes.

“Right after the robbery”, Faelnar said,” the robber placed the loot inside his black-colored backpack and fled towards the mountainous area of the said barangay”.

However, one of the police officers who was a member of the police operatives, divulged that while they were investigating the case,a married woman living just a walking distance from Anistar told them that the robber-suspect emerged from his hiding place at the nearby tall grasses and ran away.

Another police investigator SP03 Antonio Gaviola further informed that they already have a suspect and some witnesses. But he said, he cannot divulge their names yet as it might jeopardize the furtherance of their investigation.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)