Aired (February 17, 2024): Isang mall sa Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental ang pinasok ng mga kalalakihan nito lamang bagong taon. Dalawang jewelry shop at isang Automated Teller Machine o ATM ang pinagnakawan ng mga ito. Mahigit P35 milyon na halaga ng alahas at salapi, natangay ng mga kawatan! Panoorin ang video.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 "Makinang, mamahalin at iniingatan. Ganito pahalagahan ang mga alahas tulad ng ginto at dahil may malaking halaga, hindi ito nakalirigtas sa mata ng mga kawatan."
00:15 While the new year's celebration was in full swing, a group of adults made a hole in the ground for their plan to steal.
00:40 Could they achieve their dark plan?
00:58 Around 11.30am on January 1, 2024, an employee was about to enter his jewelry shop inside a mall in Osamis City, Misamis Occidental
01:12 when he noticed that the door of his shop was broken.
01:17 "Hello sir, good morning. I will report our jewelry shop. It seems like it was broken last night or the other day."
01:25 According to the staff of the shop, he couldn't believe that he saw the jewelry store.
01:34 "On December 31, we were happy because the sales were high. We were able to earn 5M."
01:42 "When our guard returned to our store, he said that someone entered. Of course, I was surprised. Is this real or just a dream?"
01:53 The vault of the jewelry shop was also not broken.
01:57 "There was a pin code and key. I was surprised that the vault was lying. It was really broken."
02:03 At 11.48am, the incident of the theft was called to the Osamis City Police Station.
02:12 [Music]
02:31 When the police arrived at the mall, they first noticed the open automated teller machine or ATM.
02:40 Not far from the ATM, the police noticed that a jewelry shop was also inside.
02:47 "We saw a jewelry store a few meters away. The items were scattered on the floor."
02:58 A few meters away, a jewelry store was also robbed by the thieves.
03:05 The items were scattered inside the shop. The thieves were also here.
03:12 How were the thieves able to steal?
03:17 "We will let people enter so we will know where they want to go."
03:22 "Start."
03:24 Will the authorities be able to catch them?
03:32 "Our jewelry shop was robbed yesterday or the day before yesterday."
03:37 When a mall employee suddenly entered the Osamis City on the first day of 2024,
03:44 the police caught him. The inside of an ATM machine was opened and locked.
03:50 Two jewelry shops were also robbed. The shop owner was also here.
03:57 He was not his real name. "The items were around 1,426 pieces.
04:03 Necklaces, earrings, everything was there. Bungles, 18 carats and 21 carats of gold."
04:10 The Osamis City Police immediately started their investigation.
04:15 "We really don't know how the thieves were able to enter."
04:18 The mall was also in a mess. The police saw some clothes and items inside a bathroom.
04:26 "We saw a safe in the bathroom."
04:29 The suspects believed that the thieves were the owner of the items.
04:34 "Ma'am, this is a possible inside job. Let's lock down the mall first.
04:38 The thieves might be still here." "Okay."
04:40 "Turn off your CCTV." "Yes, sir."
04:43 "We recovered some jogging pants, sweatshirts, bonnets."
04:49 At first, the police thought that the inside job was a possible inside job.
04:57 "We locked down the whole store and the owner of the mall was coordinating."
05:04 The police discovered up to one hole in the food court of the mall.
05:10 It was 10 to 15 meters away from the jewelry stores.
05:16 "The hole was small. It was a small size. The body was thin."
05:23 "That's when we had an idea that this was not an inside job."
05:27 The police also found some evidence.
05:31 "We recovered a hakso blade in the mall."
05:35 In the continuous investigation of the authorities,
05:37 they found a copy of a closed circuit television or CCTV camera.
05:43 What will the police discover in the CCTV camera?
05:47 And how will the authorities catch the thieves?
05:51 The stolen money and jewelry worth 35 million pesos
05:58 was found in three establishments of a mall in Osamien City, Misamis Occidental.
06:04 At first, the Osamien City Police thought about how the two jewelry shops
06:12 and an ATM machine of a closed mall could be connected.
06:16 "Chief, we saw it in the CCTV."
06:20 "This is a possible inside job. Let's lock down the mall first. Maybe the thieves are still here."
06:25 "Okay." "Let's check your CCTV."
06:27 The police found up to one hole in the food court.
06:37 "This is the only one we saw, sir. This was not there yesterday."
06:41 "We'll let someone in so we can know where the thief is."
06:45 "Yes, sir. I'll call the backup now."
06:47 In their initial investigation,
06:50 they were given a CCTV camera from a jewelry shop.
06:57 In the video, you can see three people wearing bonnets
07:02 entering the store of Alahas.
07:04 "At 3.25, they were already lighting up the lights."
07:09 "They were already wearing their gloves."
07:11 "At 3.30, they were already inside."
07:15 "They were wearing bonnets and gloves."
07:17 "That's all in the CCTV video."
07:19 One of the three suspects managed to reach and pull the CCTV camera in a different direction.
07:28 "They turned the angle of the CCTV so they can't be caught."
07:33 At first, the authorities were blinded by the three.
07:38 The next thing they investigated was the hole in the food court.
07:42 They were asked where the end of the hole is.
07:45 In the cellphone video that the police got,
07:50 two men were being tried to go down the hole in the food court
07:54 to pay their respects to the victim.
07:57 A few minutes later,
08:04 the two men came out of the hole in the food court that is just outside the mall.
08:10 "We confirmed that the person can really enter the hole."
08:27 The police followed them to the direction of the hole
08:31 until they saw a vacant lot.
08:36 The vacant lot is facing a fairground.
08:41 This is where the police started to investigate the people of the fairground.
08:48 They were able to talk to the local government.
08:54 "What is it, sir?"
08:57 "I know that there's a lot of people here in the hole that we saw."
09:01 "Hole? We're not moving there."
09:04 "You might be laughing if you know something.
09:07 Have you ever seen anyone else?"
09:09 They had a party.
09:13 The manager told them that these are the people who were missing
09:18 until 12 o'clock midnight when they were not with them.
09:22 They couldn't account for where they went
09:26 because they didn't join them.
09:28 "By around noon, we noticed that some of us were missing."
09:33 At that point, the police became more alert
09:37 to the people who might be involved in the theft.
09:41 "Around 5 p.m., we only found 6 persons of interest who said that they were not there."
09:49 "There's Eric. Eric, what happened?"
09:53 At that time, the police talked to Elias Eric,
09:57 one of the workers in the fairgrounds who was counted among the persons of interest.
10:03 "What happened to your finger? It looks like it's on the left."
10:08 What would Eric tell the people who were involved in the theft?
10:13 "He's running away!"
10:18 "Get him! Get him!"
10:19 "Hey!"
10:22 "Check where he went."
10:24 In the investigation of the Ozame City Police,
10:32 where the theft took place in a mall,
10:34 they discovered that the hole in the food court
10:41 was connected to the hole outside the mall
10:49 which is near a fairground.
10:52 "What is it, sir?"
10:58 When the police talked to the manager of the area,
11:01 they found out that some of the fairground workers were missing that night of the New Year.
11:09 The police found 6 persons of interest.
11:14 "There was a party here that year.
11:17 When it was New Year's Eve, we noticed that some of the fairground workers were missing."
11:22 "Who are they?"
11:23 "There, it's Eric. Hey Eric, come here."
11:26 "Me?"
11:28 "Yes, come here."
11:29 "Where did you go that night?"
11:33 "I didn't go anywhere. I just drank. I was just there."
11:36 The first person who joined the police in questioning was one of the persons of interest, Elias Eric.
11:44 It was noticed that the man was wearing a balisa.
11:49 "He was not wearing a balisa. He was wearing a balisa and he was shaking his hand and foot."
11:58 The police found several evidence in the mall, including a hakso blade.
12:07 "What happened to your finger? Is it still there?"
12:12 "No, it's not. It's still in the process of being treated."
12:14 That's why when they noticed that Eric had a wound on his finger,
12:19 their guts became stronger, possibly because of the incident that happened.
12:25 "We were able to recover a hakso blade that had no handle."
12:30 "If you treat a steel for a long time, the finger will have scratches."
12:40 "I'm getting dizzy. Can you give me a jingle?"
12:43 "Okay, sure."
12:45 "He's running away!"
12:50 "Hey!"
12:53 At first, Eric was shocked to learn that he was involved in the incident that happened in the mall.
12:59 "I told you I was not with him."
13:01 "Why are you running away? What do you really know?"
13:05 "He was our police officer and he told us that we can sue you for disobedience."
13:10 According to the police, Eric admitted not to be involved in the incident.
13:18 "Here, take this. Read this."
13:22 Who will Eric blame?
13:25 How was Ozamis Heist planned and executed?
13:34 "I'll go first."
13:35 "I told you I was not with him."
13:48 "Why are you running away? What do you really know?"
13:51 "Sir, I'm not involved in this."
13:54 When one of the persons of interest was accused of stealing from the mall,
13:59 he agreed to help the police.
14:03 Eric taught the other members of the group who were involved in the incident.
14:08 "Doddy and Hector."
14:10 "Totoy."
14:12 "Who else?"
14:14 "Kokoy."
14:17 He named Kokoy as the leader of their group who planned the robbery.
14:28 He was also with Joji, Doddy, Totoy, and Hector.
14:36 "Don't run away. You're under arrest."
14:39 That's why the police immediately arrested the other five members of the group.
14:46 How were they involved in the robbery?
14:50 In the investigation conducted by Ozamis City Police, it was revealed that on December 29, 2023,
14:57 the plan of the suspects was to rob the mall.
15:02 "Bro, I know someone who wants to help us."
15:06 "Maybe we're just earning a little."
15:11 "No, bro. We're different here. Do you see the mall in front of us?"
15:17 "Yes."
15:18 "We're going to enter it."
15:20 "How?"
15:22 "Did you see the imburnal outside?"
15:26 "We're going to make a hole in it and put it in the drainage system to the mall."
15:32 "It's small. We can fit in."
15:36 "It's perfect. Let's do it before the new year."
15:41 "And while that's happening, we'll enter the mall."
15:47 "It's perfect. While it's popping, we'll enter it and no one will notice or hear us."
15:55 "Okay, bro. Let's fight."
16:03 [Gunshots]
16:04 In the testimony given by Eric, on December 29, they started the robbery from the mall.
16:13 "On the 29th, they first robbed the entrance of the mall."
16:20 "The suspect, our torn witness, said that they were robbing at 1 o'clock in the morning."
16:28 "Let's go, bro. Let's go."
16:31 "Are you okay, bro? Are you okay?"
16:33 Within three days, according to Eric, they were able to escape while following the imburnal to the mall.
16:45 "Go ahead. Follow me."
16:48 "They said that they will follow us on January 1 because it's noisy."
16:56 "People are also noisy because it's the new year. They are having a party."
17:01 "That's why it's conducive to their plan to immaterialize."
17:06 "Did you pass it?"
17:16 "The one that's spinning is still spinning."
17:18 "Maybe someone is waiting."
17:23 Meanwhile, the security guard assigned to the police was given a signal.
17:27 Early on January 1, 2024, he noticed a man outside.
17:35 "He saw a man outside the mall. He was just standing outside."
17:42 "But when he approached, he didn't do anything."
17:48 "He didn't even blink."
17:52 According to Eric, he was the one who served as the lookout of the group.
17:56 "From the vacant lot that they used as a period, the suspects entered."
18:02 "They left the wall with the period to enter the drainage."
18:06 "They entered the drainage to the food court."
18:14 "They were directed from the drainage to the food court and they went out from the food court."
18:19 "They were directed from the drainage to the food court and they went out from the food court."
18:20 "What now, bro? Can you do it?"
18:25 "Let's fight. Let's fight."
18:28 "We'll fight."
18:31 "I'll go first."
18:42 "Don't go."
18:45 [music]
18:58 Not long after, the group finally entered the food court of the mall.
19:03 "You guys go ahead."
19:09 "Okay."
19:11 [music]
19:18 They first took the money from the ATM machine.
19:23 The next target of the suspects were the jewelry and money in the nearby jewelry shop.
19:40 "They opened the roll-up or the steel in the food court so that they can access the pathway to the establishments that they were robbing."
19:56 "The jewelry store was in the pathway and the ATM machine where they were robbing."
20:05 After entering the first store of the suspects, they went to another jewelry shop.
20:12 "We're almost jackpot here, bro."
20:27 "They opened the roll-up door of another jewelry store and broke the glass so that they can enter."
20:35 They were able to get the CCTV while inside the jewelry shop.
20:41 In the video, you can see the three men wearing bonnets.
20:46 They were also given one more CCTV so that they can't get the stolen goods.
20:53 [music]
20:56 Despite the votes of the stores, the police forcefully opened the doors.
21:03 The money and cash that they got were immediately wrapped in plastic so that they can slip out of the hole.
21:11 "They wrapped the jewelry and cash in a black garbage bag.
21:18 They used the black garbage bag to prevent the goods from getting wet."
21:23 In the investigation of the police, the group's operation took several hours.
21:29 "Let's give this to him."
21:31 "We're worth it."
21:42 "Let's go."
21:44 "Wait."
21:47 "Wake up, bro."
21:48 "Their execution took only 3 to 4 hours. They were released from the mall."
22:15 In the investigation of the police, a witness saw three suspects while they were going out of the hole in the jewelry store.
22:24 The thieves were still in the mall.
22:27 At that time, some of the suspects were not wearing any clothes.
22:40 "We have a motor cab driver who was in the area around 5 in the morning.
22:49 He saw these guys going out of the hole while the others were just wearing briefs."
22:57 "This is nice."
23:00 "This suits me."
23:04 Meanwhile, in the briefs given by Alias Kokoy, who was appointed as the leader of the group,
23:09 when they went out of the hole in the jewelry store.
23:12 "This is a gift, bro."
23:14 "Who are these guys?"
23:19 "The boss said they are people you talked to."
23:22 "You should be a GB."
23:24 "Good job, guys."
23:28 Three men were waiting for them and they were robbed of their money and jewelry.
23:35 "What is that? What is that?"
23:38 "What is that?"
23:40 "What is that?"
23:42 "I thought that was a gun."
23:45 "I'm sorry, boss just gave orders."
23:47 "What is that?"
23:49 "I thought that was a gun."
23:53 "They were double-crossed because they were shot while taking items
23:59 and they left using four-wheel vehicles.
24:03 We didn't believe it because it was part of their plan
24:10 that after they got the items, they would be transferred to the city."
24:18 After five suspects were arrested, including Alias Kokoy, Alias Joji, Alias Dodi, Alias Totoy, and Alias Hector,
24:28 they were charged with robbery while Alias Eric was the witness in the case, according to the police.
24:36 "Now, they are still in the detention cell of the Osami City Police Station
24:44 and they are waiting for a committed order from the court to commit them to the BGMP."
24:50 We tried to get hold of the three commercial establishments, but they stopped talking.
24:57 Only one of the three victims filed a case against the group.
25:02 The group's leader, Alias Kokoy, was the one who got the group interviewed.
25:09 "They told us that they wanted money, so we agreed to it.
25:14 I needed money, that was their job.
25:20 I agreed to it. We are blaming them. Why did they arrest us?"
25:26 The police is still investigating the three men who were charged with money and robbery,
25:37 and who were charged with being the mastermind of the robbery.
25:40 "That is what we are working on now.
25:43 We are not stopping our investigation until we apprehend the mastermind and recover the items."
25:50 The police reminded them that it is important to be more strict with security so that the victims will not be harmed.
26:01 "Our malls should be updated and have security cameras.
26:11 We should also install security cameras and a security system."
26:17 Until next Saturday, for the continued uncovering of the truth and finding the truth,
26:29 I am John Consulta and this is the Pinoy Crime Stories.
26:36 [MUSIC]