Philippine National Police (PNP) officer-in-charge, Lt. Gen. Rhodel Sermonia, on Wednesday lauded the Police Regional Office in Calabarzon (PRO 4A) for the arrest of four members of a notorious robbery-hold up gang operating in Calabarzon and National Capital Region (NCR).
Sermonia commended the swift police action and intensified intelligence operations of the operating units that led to the arrest of the four suspects.
“The quick action of our police is the result of the cooperation and collaboration of our countrymen through information and other details that helped to immediately identify the culprits involved in the robbery that occurred in the past month),” Sermonia said in a statement.
PRO 4A director, Brig. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr., identified the suspects as Larry Gilbero, Jessierell Eusebio, John Clister Balderama and Diosdado Tamondong Jr., who were all arrested in an operation in Barangay Calzada in Tipas, Taguig City on Nov. 26.
The operation was conducted by joint operatives of the Regional Intelligence Division 4A Special Operations Unit and members of the Binangonan, Rizal, and Bacoor and Imus City police, in coordination with the local police.
Nartatez said the operation stemmed from the information they received on Nov. 25 from the crew members of a convenience store in Imus City, Cavite that was robbed by the suspects.
According to the report, four male suspects entered the establishment and directly asked the on-duty staff for the location of the vault at gunpoint.