Police arrested an off-duty\u00a0 security guard on suspicion that he\u00a0 connived with three men\u00a0 in robbing\u00a0 workers of a cell phone loading\u00a0 company in barangay Lorega, Cebu City.<\/p>\n
Police said text messages in the cell phone of Bartolome Paciente, 47,\u00a0 showed he was in touch with the robbers.<\/p>\n
A\u00a0 fellow security guard Saturnino Berangberang was also held by police for questioning.<\/p>\n
Both guards were assigned at the M15 Corporation Oriental on\u00a0 Echavez Street.<\/p>\n
In an interview with reporters, Paciente admitted that he gave information to the robbers that cash was stored in the company.<\/p>\n
Paciente is a native of Ozamiz City. He identified the three robbers as Francis Baarag and a certain Bong and Roy, his\u00a0 neighbors in Ozamiz.<\/p>\n
Paciente said he met with the three last week in a hotel in Echavez.<\/p>\n
Police said around 8 p.m. last Friday, three armed men broke into the company’s building and held up 11 employees, who lost\u00a0 high-end cellular phones, cash, laptops, jewelry and personal belongings whose total value was\u00a0 more\u00a0 than half a million pesos.<\/p>\n
PO3 Mark Beto\u00f1o, investigator of the Theft and Robbery Section of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), said police are are still studying what charges to be filed against Paciente.<\/p>\n
Beto\u00f1o said Paciente was off-duty when the robbery occurred.<\/p>\n
Police said all workers were gathered after the robbery and they noticed that Paciente was acting suspiciously.<\/p>\n
Paciente’s cell phone was confiscated.\u00a0 Investigators found proof of his\u00a0 exchange with the robbers.<\/p>\n
Police\u00a0 said an operation to arrest the robbers is in progress.\/CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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