QC cops collar Akyat-Bahay suspects

Police arrested the other day three of eight suspected members of the Akyat-Bahay Gang, including a 16-year-old boy, during separate operations in Quezon City.

Suspects Zaldy Barrias, 27, Efren Galang, 25, both residents of Cambridge street in Cubao, are now detained at the Central Police District headquarters as they await proper charges to be filed against them.

A 16-year-old high school student was apprehended in another operation. Police said he had at least four other unidentified cohorts with him. They are still at large.

Reports showed that policemen were patrolling the area along 14-A Purdue street at about 2:30 a.m. last Thursday when they heard a woman, later identified as Jennifer Pelaez, 24, screaming for help.

She told probers that the two suspects broke into her home and stole her cellular phone. Follow-up operations were immediately conducted which led to the arrests of Barrias and Galang.

The teenage suspect, on the other hand was collared after he forced his way inside the house of a certain Marivic Tuazon located at St. Ignatius Village at about 7:30 a.m. The suspect used a ladder from Tuazon’s shed and passed it to his four cohorts outside.

Investigators believe that the suspects planned to use the ladder to get to Tuazon’s bedroom on the second floor of the house. Tuazon, however, saw what the suspects were up to and called the police.

Responding policemen arrived at the scene where a brief chase followed leading to the apprehension of the teenager. His four companions, however, were able to escape. – Matthew Estabillo