Police files charges
against 5 arrested ‘Notorious Robbery Gang’ in Zamboanga del Sur
By JONG D. CADION
PAGADIAN CITY,
Zamboanga del Sur (March 8, 2015) --- The Police have filed charges at the
Provincial Prosecutor’s Office against the 5 arrested and wounded suspects in
an encounter Friday afternoon at Barangay Camanga in the nearby coastal town of
Tukuran of this province, Police Official said.
Police Provincial Director
Senior Supt. Sofronio Ecaldre said three cases of Robbery with force and intimidation,
frustrated murder and attempted murder filed Sunday afternoon against the 5
suspected members of the ‘Notorious Robbery Gang’ operating in Mindanao.
Ecaldre said that of the 5
suspects arrested two were wounded and confined at the Zamboanga del Sur
Medical Center while 3 others were killed in an encounter between the
responding operatives of Tukuran Municipal Police Station. In the initial
investigation disclosed that the encounter was transpired between the suspects
after the police operatives responded the reported shooting and robbery
incident at Loremae Restaurant in Barangay Militar, Tukuran at about 5:30 p.m.
Saturday.
Ecaldre said the suspects
onboard gate away vehicle Carlight Daewoo Matiz Sedan in high speed and hurdled
the established checkpoint by the police operatives that prompted them to chase
the suspects and later was cornered at Barangay Camanga resulted to a
firefight. The police have recovered from the crime scene 4 caliber 45 pistol
with magazines and 1 Glock-17 caliber 9mm pistol with magazine and ammunition
after the suspects were neutralized.
Ecaldre identified the 3 killed male
suspects as Kyle John Gumera aka Jano, 25, single a resident of Cebu City, a
certain Aka Balong and Aka Dodong or Dong Parts. The 3 other arrested suspects
also identified as Edgardo Elmidulan y Cabillo, 54 widower, jobless and a
resident of Purok Narra San Pedro District , Pagadian City, Wilma Putis y
Empas, 45 widow, businesswoman and a resident of Grand Europa, Cagayan de Oro
City and former resident of Clarin, Misamis Occidental and Maljon Lumuljo
Gornes, 35, married, conductor and a resident of Purok Makugihon, Barangay Sto.
Niño, Tukuran.
While the wounded female suspect
confined at the hospital identified as Sugar Libot Clifon, 28, married, jobless
a resident of Grand Europa, Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro City and Genelyn Baller
Lacre aka Doods, 27, single, resident of Frontiera Grand Europa, Block 37 Lot
37, Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro City. Ecaldre added that the suspects were
identified and involved in the series of
robbery victimizing LBC and JRS in Pagadian City few weeks ago and in other
places in Mindanao.
Ecaldre also said that the suspects
were also responsible in a series of robbery hold-up in Cagayan del Oro after
the government issued firearm Glock-17 caliber 9mm pistol
owned by the policeman they disarmed and recovered such firearm from their
possession. The recovered firearms were turned-over to the Crime
Laboratory for ballistic examination while the case was being prepared for
filing against them, he said.
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