Police files charges against 5 arrested ‘Notorious Robbery Gang’ in Zamboanga del Sur

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.

3 robbery suspects arrested

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.