P5,000 and a cellphone for a boy’s release

Police arrested a 21-year-old pedicab driver who allegedly kidnapped a two-year-old boy in Parañaque City on Saturday.

The suspect, identified as Pablo Salazar Guyo, reportedly asked for P5,000 and a cellular phone in exchange for the release of the victim.

He was nabbed in an entrapment operation launched by the police after the parents of Marcos Bien Cundangan sought the help of authorities.

Reports said the victim was abducted from his parents’ house at 5190 Dandan St., also in La Huerta, Parañaque City at around 8 a.m.

Eleven hours later, the suspect called up the victim’s mother, Crisanta Cundangan, 23, a food vendor, and asked for ransom.

Police, led by Inspector Dominador Bartolazo, immediately readied an entrapment operation against Guyo at a gasoline station along General Emilio Aguinaldo Avenue in Barangay Tambo.

As soon as the suspect was spotted, police immediatelt arrested him and rescued the two-year-old boy, who was safely returned to his mother.

Guyo, who also goes by the name Onok, a resident of 6407 H. Domingo St., La Huerta, was jailed on kidnap-for-ransom charges.

If proven guilty, he will join the ranks of convicts facing the death penalty for committing a heinous crime punishable by lethal injection even if all he wanted was some cash and a cellular phone of his own.