7 suspected motorbike thieves nabbed in QC

MANILA, Philippines - A tip about the sale of a stolen motorcycle led policemen to seven suspected motorcycle thieves in one afternoon, an official said yesterday.

Superintendent Ferdinand Villanueva, head of the Quezon City Police District’s Anti-Carnapping Unit, said in a report that they checked a tip about the sale of a stolen Yamaha Mio Soul motorcycle (6520-TD) along Roosevelt Avenue near Muñoz Market on June 12.

Policemen went there at past 2 p.m. and man riding the motorcycle and two other men onboard a Kymco motorcycle (8634-IB). The three men tried to flee but were arrested.

Je-Ar Satam failed to present papers for the Yamaha motorcycle, which had been stolen from Emiliano Baclig in Antipolo City on May 25. The same was true with Orlando Ortaliza and Rommel Hisula, who were on the Kymco motorcycle.

The three men pointed to Glenn Soria and Ar-Jay Arabis as being involved in motorcycle theft. The police officers arrested Soria and Arabis at past 4 p.m.

Soria and Arabis named Marlon Trangia and John Bryan Galang and led police to a house in Sta. Teresita Village, Marikina City. At Trangia’s house, police officers saw another Yamaha Mio Soul motorcycle (7147-PD). The motorcycle’s license plate is assigned to a black Yamaha Mio Soul owned by a certain Winsor Poquiz.

When police officers checked the chassis and engine numbers of the motorcycle at Trangia’s house, they turned out to be assigned to a gray Yamaha Mio motorcycle stolen from Gerald Ryan Falcis. Trangia and his wife, Nenith, told police Galang sold them the motorcycle.

The couple led policemen to Galang’s house, where Nenith saw Galang on a blue Suzuki Shogun motorcycle on the road.

Following the arrests, Baclig and Falcis identified their stolen vehicles.

Satam, Ortaliza, Hisula, Soria, Arabis, Trangia and Galang were charged with fencing and car theft.