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Two extortionists nabbed for try on Sta. Rosa buses

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Santa Rosa, Laguna—Staffers of Laguna 2nd District Rep. Jun Chipeco have filed robbery extortion and estafa charges against two persons for posing as towing company employees and impersonating the lawmakers’ staff while trying to victimize workers of a shuttle service, whose bus broke down here last week.

In a report by Police Supt. Eugene Orate, City Chief of Police of Santa Rosa, to Laguna Provincial Director Senior Supt. Kirby John Brion Kraft, the suspects were identified as Dina Andes Del Rosario and Domingo Hilario Artes, former Land Transportation Office workers.

Del Rosario and Artes were arrested in an entrapment operation by the Santa Rosa Police at the Sta. Rosa Commercial Complex in Barangay Balibago last Wednesday night.

The event stemmed from a complaint filed jointly by Havana Shuttle Service, represented by its operations manager Edwin Moyco Cerdena; Kevin Doy Lusabia, representing Central Towing Services; and Melchor Lusabia, owner of Central Towing and a staffer of Rep. Chipeco, against the couple.

They alleged that Del Rosario and Artes went around posing as employees of the towing firm, using the name of the elder Lusabia, to solicit funds for a supposed company outing without the knowledge of the latter.

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If their would-be victims like Havana denied their request, the duo threatened to tow their shuttle or tour buses, especially if they found them parked along the main Sta. Rosa Highway, unless they were paid a certain amount to prevent the towing. This modus continued until the local police successfully entrapped them last week. 

Lusabia stressed that he has never authorized any employees of his towing company to go on solicitation errands to raise funds for any sort of outing.

“This is a warning to groups who are doing this modus that they will not succeed in their plot,” he added. 

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