BEN SERRANO
Contributing editor
BAYUGAN CITY—Call it stupidity or bad luck. Three suspected robbers who connived to rob a bank Thursday midnight ended up arrested by authorities after they accidentally pushed the red button to the police station.
Police said Michael Lopez Sopera, alias Dodong Tisoy, Christopher Perez alyas Bobong, and Francis Cavite Palima Jr. gained entry inside the unnamed bank by cutting the iron grill covering the bank’s aircon unit.
The three then ransacked the drawers but were not able to open the vault and in their effort to find money unintentionally pushed the police alarm bell from one of the desks.
SPO4 Gilbert Lumacad, who led other policemen in responding to the alarm, saw Sopera alone inside the bank.
Recovered from Sopera were a mobile phone, coins worth P1,486, flashlight, a CCTV camera, battery charger, scissor and a make up kit.
Pursuit operations later led to the arrest of Perez and Palima who fled before the police arrived at the bank.
There were suspicions that the bank’s security guard, known as Jessie Tabanao, is in cahoots with the suspects since he was not around when the robbery took place.
Contributing editor
BAYUGAN CITY—Call it stupidity or bad luck. Three suspected robbers who connived to rob a bank Thursday midnight ended up arrested by authorities after they accidentally pushed the red button to the police station.
Police said Michael Lopez Sopera, alias Dodong Tisoy, Christopher Perez alyas Bobong, and Francis Cavite Palima Jr. gained entry inside the unnamed bank by cutting the iron grill covering the bank’s aircon unit.
The three then ransacked the drawers but were not able to open the vault and in their effort to find money unintentionally pushed the police alarm bell from one of the desks.
SPO4 Gilbert Lumacad, who led other policemen in responding to the alarm, saw Sopera alone inside the bank.
Recovered from Sopera were a mobile phone, coins worth P1,486, flashlight, a CCTV camera, battery charger, scissor and a make up kit.
Pursuit operations later led to the arrest of Perez and Palima who fled before the police arrived at the bank.
There were suspicions that the bank’s security guard, known as Jessie Tabanao, is in cahoots with the suspects since he was not around when the robbery took place.