Internet café loses 10 computers to robbers

An internet café was robbed of cash and computers by three still unidentified men who fled on board a van early Friday morning in Valenzuela City, police reported yesterday.

PO3 Rommel Sobrido, officer-on-case, said the Cyber Hub Internet Café at 14-E Tamaraw Hills, Marulas was robbed at around 5:30 a.m. and lost 10 central processing units (CPUs) worth P230,000 and the previous day’s earnings of P3,000 in cash to the robbers, who fled on board a maroon Toyota Tamaraw FX (UJU-440) toward an unknown direction.

Witness Marlon Diaz, 20, employee of the café and resident of Karuhatan, Valenzuela City, and the suspects — two of them posing as customers — entered the outlet and at knifepoint ordered everyone inside to lie down on the floor.

The two proceeded to bring out the computers and took the cash from the register. The suspects then fled on board their get-away vehicle, a flash alarm for which has been raised.

Prior to this, a motorcycle left unattended by its owner in front of a billiard hall was stolen by an unidentified suspect an hour after midnight yesterday.

Jhannet Bautista, 25, self-employed, of Pacheco Subdivision, Dalandanan, said the red and silver Mitsukoshi motorcycle (UL-9568) belonged to her sister-in-law Joan Chalvin-Bautista, 22, of the same address.

Jhannet told probers she parked the vehicle in front of the Hector’s Billiards along MacArthur Highway in Barangay Marulas at around 1 a.m. yesterday. When she returned to the place where she left the motorcycle, it was already missing. She reported the incident to the police at around 2:30 yesterday morning. – Jerry Botial, Pete Laude