A
P100,000 cash reward will be given to informants who can provide vital information
leading to the arrest "dead or alive" of two ex-convicts tagged as prime
suspects in the series of robbery hold-ups in the city.
City
Mayor Dan Lim announced this reward as he continued to warn ex-convicts Ian Bautista
and Michael Lao to "surrender or die."
During
his weekly Mayor's Report over dyRD yesterday, Lim also bared that P5,000 to P10,000
will be given to those who could give out identities of persons who are possessing
loose firearms and other wanted criminals.
Relatives
and friends of these wanted criminals will face the full consequences of the law
once found to be protecting and harboring them, according to the mayor.
Mayor
Lim said informants may call the city police station or his office at the City
Hall while he assures confidentiality and protection of their identities.
| | | The
mayor's friends and political allies will not be spared either, as Mayor Lim received
information that some of his supporters are engaged in the illegal drug trade
and the numbers game 'swertres.'
According
to Mayor Lim, in the past week, the city PNP have been conducting surveillances
on known police characters. At the same time, while threats that criminals will
strike again, CPG Avenue was temporarily cleared from motorcycles, as perpetrators
of the robbery hold-ups all used motorbikes as their getaway vehicle. |
During
his radio program, Mayor Lim lauded police efforts that have led to the identification
of the prime suspects and warns them not to hesitate in shooting the suspects
in the event they would fight back.
Meanwhile,
the complaint filed at the city prosecutor's office against the two prime suspects
of the broad daylight hold-up on Unitop department store cashier Rufa Balingit
that also resulted in the killing of her escort security guard Dalmacio Casimsiman
Jr., was withdrawn Friday afternoon following Mayor Lim's orders.
Mayor
Lim explained the retraction of charges against the two suspects does not mean
that evidence against them is weak.
The
mayor wants to consolidate the filing of complaints tomorrow since there are still
other suspects that are linked to the incident and material evidence can establish
their link to Bautista and Lao.
Both
suspects are already facing charges for the Lim Caltex station hold-up after employees
positively identified the two from photographs of the PNP criminals gallery.
The
two suspects, Bautista and Lao, are also tagged in the mid-day hit of the Florencio
Lim Caltex gas station and are being hunted down by police operatives for several
burglary and hold-ups in the towns of Guindulman, Lila and Trinidad.
Both
Bautista and Lao were positively identified by security guards of business establishments
where the hold-up and shooting incident on the Unitop employees occurred along
CPG Avenue last December 28.
The
broad daylight hold-up incidents also victimized four employees of FCB Foundation
last week who encashed over P300,000 due for release to beneficiaries of livelihood
projects in the towns of Dauis, Cortes and Balilihan.
At
the height of the Christmas holidays, burglars also ransacked DES Marketing along
Lessage Street, B&J Computers along Gallares Street and an Indian-owned bazaar
along B. Inting Street. | 
