Window-smashing robbers steal valuables from 3 cars

Robbers smashed the windows of three cars and took valuables left behind by the vehicles’ owners in less than three hours Saturday, all in Barangay Bahay Toro, Quezon City.

It was not clear whether the same robbers were behind the three incidents.

At around 4:30 p.m., ABS-CBN writer Edgar Albert Mortiz lost P17,000 and some valuables – including his house keys –he left in his white Ford Focus.

According to a report from the Quezon City Police District-Station 3, Mortiz, a resident of Marikina City, left the vehicle at the parking space of a fastfood chain on Congressional Avenue. Mortiz, his wife and friends were in the restaurant when the suspects broke his car’s front passenger window.

An hour later, businessman James Vergara lost his checkbooks, automated teller machine cards, passbooks, his passport and other documents to robbers who broke into his Chevrolet Optra, which was parked near his house, while he attended Mass at the village church.

At around 7 p.m. also along Congressional Avenue, sales agent Marlon Giba lost his passport and other documents contained in a bag he left inside a white Toyota Avanza owned by his employer.

Giba left the company-owned Avanza at the parking space of San Lorenzo College, which was being monitored by a parking assistant. A few minutes later, a white Tamaraw FX (TMX-126) arrived.

One of its passengers got out of the vehicle and asked parking assistant Artemio Tatao a question. While they were talking, three other men got out and broke the driver’s side window of the Avanza and took a bag from it.

Tatao noticed what was happening, but said the suspects pointed guns at him, got into the Tamaraw FX and fled with the bag.