PHILLIPINES SAN FERNANDO COMPUTERS STOLEN FROM SCHOOLABS-CBNNEWS.COMStolen school computers recovered from four suspects

By JOJO DUE
TODAY Reporter


CITY OF SAN FERNANDO - Police recovered some of the 19 computer units and accessories worth about P200,000 stolen from a national high school in Tarlac City recently, after four of the suspected robbers were nabbed on separate occasions in Pampanga and Tarlac.


Arrested were Jerry Reyes, 37, of barangay Anupul, Bamban, Tarlac; Stephen Archimedes Musngi, 43, jobless, of the Sta. Lucia Resettlement site in Magalang, Pampanga; Fernando Leyesa, 33, jobless, of Casmor, Mabalacat, Pampanga; and Arnel Samson, 31, of barangay Balite, this city.


According to the police, the suspects gained entry to the computer room of the Alvindia-Aguso National High School in barangay Aguso, Tarlac City, on January 18 by destroying the steel frame of the wooden windows of the Principal’s Office. The equipment were reportedly donated by the Department of Trade and Industry.


Senior Supt. Leonardo Espina, chief of the Central Luzon Police Regional Intelligence and Investigation Division (Riid), said in his report to Central Luzon Police Director Chief Supt. Vidal Querol that Reyes was the first to be arrested when policemen on mobile patrol in Tarlac City chanced upon an Isuzu XLT-type jeepney suspiciously parked in front of the Digitel Tower compound in the early morning of January 21.


As policemen approached to investigate, they saw four men running from the vehicle. They were allegedly detaching two air-conditioning units of the establishment.


A brief chase resulted in Reyes’s arrest. Policemen also found in the jeepney a bolt cutter, a fire extinguisher, one emergency light, a screwdriver and a heavy wrench.


During interrogation, Reyes confessed to participation in the robbery of the computers. His confession led to the identification of his three companions, who were later arrested in coordination with the Magalang and Mabalacat police.


The three suspects were then arrested at their respective homes where police recovered some of the stolen computer central-processing units (CPUs), monitors, printers and other accessories.


Recovered from Leyesa were two CPUs, two monitors with the markings “TPPO,” two speakers and one voltage regulator, and from Musngi one printer, two speakers and one computer cable.


The suspects also confessed that they had sold some stolen items, including 14 monitors and two CPUs for P16,000 to an Angeles City resident who voluntarily surrendered the computers when the police informed him that they were stolen.


The appropriate charges were being prepared against the suspects while they were still being interrogated to determine the extent of their criminal activities and involvement in other robbery incidents in Tarlac and adjacent provinces