A cop with a pending robbery case was arrested after he allegedly pulled another heist on Dec. 14 inside a grocery store in San Ildefonso, Bulacan, Senior Insp. Lynelle Solomon, public information officer of the Bulacan Provincial Police Office, said Thursday.
In 24 hours, follow-up operations of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group led to the arrest of one of the suspects—Police Officer 3 Nolasco Bernardo Juan, currently assigned at the Provincial Public Safety Company as guard of the Camp Alejo Santos based in Malolos City.
Police are still pursuing Juan’s cohorts.
Solomon said the cartographic sketches of Juan and his two companions came out on Dec. 15 through the description of the victims and the two duty security guards of Savemore Market.
“A composite illustration of one of the suspects was drawn based on the descriptions provided by the two duty security guards identified as Dennis Escreza and Macario Bernardo. Thereafter, pictures of persons previously involved in robbery incidents were presented to the witnesses, wherein they positively identified the pictures bearing the name of PO3 Nolasco Bernardo Juan. The said suspect was then arrested, already charged for robbery and detained at San Ildefonso Police Station,” Solomon said.
She said Juan, a resident of Barangay Poblacion, Baliwag, Bulacan and former member of the Plaridel Police Station, had previously went on absence without official leave after being implicated in a robbery incident in Plaridel on Nov. 19.
“He returned to PNP control and pending his criminal and administrative cases, he was assigned to PPSC of BPPO as guard of Camp Alejo Santos in Malolos City,” Solomon said.
Police said it was around 11 a.m. when bank teller Joan Gallido, 31, of Banco de Oro and her security escort, Ramon Dimalanta, 35, officer-in-charge of Black Mace Security Agency, were attacked by the robber at Savemore.
