Four men break-in a rural bank in Sta. Rosa, Laguna, one of the suspects arrested

Miami
September 8, 2008
Story: Four men break-in a rural bank in Sta. Rosa, Laguna, one of the suspects arrested

Four men break into a rural bank in Sta. Rosa, Laguna last Saturday at around 2:00 am, one of the suspects was arrested.

Sta. Rosa Chief of Police Supt. Rodney Ramirez said their police received information from Taguig Police Tactical Operations Center to check the Country Rural Bank branch in Sta. Rosa, Laguna because their alarm system in Taguig is making a warning.

The Country Rural Bank in Laguna is located along the national highway in Barangay Dila, Sta. Rosa, Laguna.

Ramirez explained that the alarm system of Country Rural Bank is centralized on their branch in Signal Village, Taguig City. The guard on duty in Taguig, called the attention of the police and the Taguig police immediately informed the Laguna Police.

He added that the suspects used vault cutter in order to enter at the main door of the said bank. “They used the vault cutter to destroy the padlock outside that is why they managed to get through. Then inside they got the money from the vault.”

Sta. Rosa Police is still undetermined how much money did the suspects loot from the bank, “Even the bank do not want to disclose the total amount of money in their vault that the suspects might have steal from them,” Ramirez said.

But Ramirez said they were able to recover about Php350,000 which was inside a plastic bag from the suspect that they arrested. The suspect was identified as Richard Buhay, 29, and residing at Novaliches, Quezon City.

When the police responded at the bank, they caught-up Buhay who apparently went back to the bank because he left his slippers inside. “According to him, they are doing their work very fast so that they can escape immediately, but when they ran away from the bank he noticed that the right pair of his slippers was missing, so he went back and he was arrested,” Ramirez said.

Ramirez said that the suspects are not that professional after leaving the things that they used that might be used as evidences against them. Recovered from the crime scene were; two (2) steel saws; two screw drivers; one slipper (right); and one crow bar.

Upon arrest, the suspect admitted the crime that he committed and added that the four of them is doing shoplifting in Manila as well, adding that they tried to break-in to the bank to get more money. The suspect is now facing robbery charge before Laguna Prosecutors Office and is now cooperating with the police for the possible whereabouts of the other suspects.