“Cellphone-for-shabu” swap is rampant-PNP
WOMEN WARNED
LADIES beware!
Cellular phone snatching has become more rampant in Dagupan City after drug dealers started to accept phones as currency for buying the illegal drug shabu.
Police reports show that main targets of snatchers are females and are attacked during the evening and early morning hours by a group of two or three armed men who use a tricycle as their escape vehicle.
Several cases have led to serious injuries on the victims and at least one fatality.
P/Supt. Mariano Luis Verzosa, Dagupan City police chief, issued the warning as he assured the community that the police are doing their best to put a stop to the spate of snatching and other drug-related crimes.
“This is the new modus operandi of the shabu dealers. “So doble kabig yong pusher kasi may benta na siya ng shabu, tumubo pa siya uli sa cellphone kasi wala ng tanungan pa kung magkano yong unit katapat ng kung gaano karaming shabu ang ibibigay sa kanila,” Verzosa told The PUNCH.
One of the recent victims was shot by her attacker in the Bonuan area after she recognized his face when he grabbed her cellular phone.
“Nakita mo na rin lang mukha ko, babarilin na lang kita,” the victim, who fortunately survived, told the police later.
The suspect, whom the victim was able to identify from police records, is now under police custody and a case has been filed against him.
On July 2, Zharlene Yadao, a nurse and daughter of local lady broadcaster Susan Yadao of Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan, was also gunned down by her attackers after snatching her cellular phones while she was walking on her way home.
In Barangay Bolosan, another female was hit with the nozzle of a gun by her attackers and kicked when she refused to give her bag that she claimed contained only her uniform.
In another case, a female student died after she was dragged from the tricycle she was in when motorcycle-riding men snatched her bag, again in the Bonuan area.
The police chief asked the community’s help by immediately reporting suspicious-looking persons in their areas. #
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