A Well-Planned Robbery Ends In A Fiasco
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The equipments and tools that the robbers were bringing in robbing the Henry Lhuillier Pawnshop in brgy.Abgao, this city, which they have left inside, were proofs that they were big-time robbers.
It’s a well-planned robbery the way it was carried out.It was believed that the suspected robbers were studying the pawnshop’s location and how to penetrate inside, since the store is always double-loc ked at closing time.
The robbers believed to be composed of either three or four men, have make use of the neck-deep canal dig last year and doubled with series connection of culverts as part of the streets widening in this city.
The opening of the canal’s exist was below the bridge, which served as a boundary between brgys.Abgao and Tunga-Tunga, was more or less 100 meters away from the victim-pawnshop.
Police Investigator PO2 Danny A. Araba informed that it took three to four days for the robbers to dig a hole that would allow them to reach the pawnshop’s floorings. The robbers have cut the steelbars, which provides strength to the floorings, before they could destroy the concrete floor for their final entrance.
The alongside location of the long canal down to the river where the bridge was, was more or less 3 meters away from the floor’s hole. The size of its diameter was big enough to allow the passage of a regular body size of a male person.
The investigator claimed that based on their analysis the suspects started digging the hole, after destroying the culvert, as early as 6:00 p.m. At this time different vehicles passing by the Tomas Oppus street would be producing various kinds of sounds and noises that would drowned whatever noise or sound activity done below the ground.
The robbery was discovered the following day Wednesday morning recently when employees have reported to t heir works.
Earlier, the responding police operatives led by Araba rushed to the pawnshop after one of the employees called the Maasin Police Station.
However, the way the suspects did their dangerous activities inside the store to rob it of its valuable items was a great failure. They have miserably missed their target in order to make away with the jewelries and other valuable goods placed inside the P1M worth vault.
As shown in the police’s pictures the robbers used acetylene to incise a vault’s compartment but that particular storeroom was empty. It was obvious that they ran out of acetylene supply and have tried to open the vault thru its lock combinations that they have destroyed.
Apparently, it took too much time for them to try to open another compartment, but they already ran out of time to possess the hidden wealth including pawned cellphones.Our source said that when they sensed that it was already dawn, they have decided to flee at about three or four a.m. leaving behind their equipments and tools.
HLP ‘s Area Manager Dante Verano told police that the suspects took their weighing scale and diamond-gold gauge all worth P27,000.00.They used to exclude it from other items in hiding inside their vault.
The police said the damaged vault contained undetermined amount of jewelries, other accessories and important documents.
Helpers/waiters at a store next to HLP informed the police operatives that at about 10:00 p.m. they have heard an explosion. However, they said they could not figure out what kind of explosion it was.
It was also learned that unlike most stores, whose owners would just leave their products on the stalls, it was the standing policy of all pawnshops to always keep their goods and other items inside their vaults during closing time.
The police further revealed that it took from 5:00p.m. up to 11:00p.m. for the knowledgeable HLP’s technician to open the damaged vault.
Equipments and tools that were left by the suspects at the crime scene were: 1 unit blue-colored 2.7 kg LPG tank(GAZ-brand name) with green and red-colored duplex hose, approximately 78 inches in length; 1 unit color green acetylene(Conairco-brand name); 2 pcs. red and orange Jack 32 tons; 1 unit orange-colored chargeable flashlights (Bamo-marking); 1 unit steelsaw with handle(Creston-name); 3 pcs. hand gloves; 3 pcs. steel bars; 1 pc. Big nail; 2 pcs. electrical fliers; 1 pc. Adjustable wrench; 1 pc. Screw driver; 1 pc. Lighter; 1 pc.EMI’s match; 1 pair green-colored slipper; 3 pcs. Tapelone with markings Maasin Star; 1 ballcap (Nike brand); 1 pc. Belt bag; 1 pc. Black bag (GAP-brand name); assorted clothes
and jagging pants; 8 pcs.2 by 1 mahogany lumber; 3 pcs. 3 by 4, 1.7 feet mahogany lumber; 2 pcs. 4 by 4 by 2.6 =36 inches lumber.
Moreover, some observers have the notion that the robbers were wearing gas masks to protect them from the unbearable and pungent stink and rubberized clothings to prevent various viruses from entering inside their bodies while wading and soaking in the dirty water.
Additionally, this is also the first time ever of a pawnshop where the robbers used the long canal as the passageway and dug an underground 3-meter hole and destroyed its flooring to enter inside.
(Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.)
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