police quarters in Agusan del Norte robbed by armed men

Miami
September 23, 2008
Story: police quarters in Agusan del Norte robbed by armed men

A simultaneous robbery occurred in Agusan Del Norte, Tueday night, one in the quarters of the police station and the other one is at the monitoring station of the municipality for illegal logging.

The incident occurred in barangay Poblacion, Las Nieves, Agusan del Norte at around 7:00 pm.

As explained by Sr. Inspector Dexter Leonardo, Chief of Police of Las Nieves, the waiting area which they makeshift it to a quarters for their policemen is the one that was harassed and robbed by armed men.

The said quarters is about 400 meters away from the Las Nieves police station and no one noticed that there are people who entered their quarters and no one left at the quarters at that moment. Robbed from the quarters are two uniforms of their policemen and two pair of boots.

While the robbery inside the quarters is happening, another robbery is occurring at the monitoring station of Governor’s Special Action Checkpoint (GSAC). The monitoring station is located beside the Agusan River, it is in-charge of checking boats that are passing by at the area for illegal logging.

Inside GSAC, the armed men tied Vic Maisling, nephew of Larry Maisling, team leader of GSAC. Based on the statement of Vic, there are about 30 armed men plus three female who went at the area. About 15 armed men entered the monitoring station and tied him at the hands, and the rest went to the quarters of the policemen which is about 200 meters away from the monitoring station.

Leonardo said it seems that the armed men only went to the monitoring station to get the pump boat which is a 5 horse Power Honda engine pump boat. The suspects rode on the said pump boat along Agusan River for their escape. The incident only lasted for about 5 minutes.

Leonardo also cleared that there are no guns or service firearm that were taken away from them because there were no guns at their quarters.