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Date: 30 November 2013
Source: Journal Online

Global Positioning System of an iPad the suspects stole from their victim. The suspects, identified as Raymond Reyes, 23, and Joel David, 32, both of Bgy. Balingasa, were slapped with robbery with homicide charges. Insp. Elmer Monsalve, Homicide Section chief of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, said the two were collared on Nov. 20 following a heist in Bgy. Laging Handa. Monsalve said the suspects were also tagged by two witnesses as the ones who shot dead Olivia Samarita, 41, and took her shoulder bag containing P 500,000 last week. The police officials said Samarita’s death was caught on film by a nearby surveillance camera. Samarita, a secretary of Bellfry Lubricants, was gunned down in front of the company office in Bgy. San Isidro Labrador at 10:20 a.m. of Nov. 13 as she was alighting from the company service vehicle. Two men were seen grabbing the shoulder bag of the woman, who had just withdrawn P500,000 from a bank as instructed by her boss. A week later, the two were arrested separately in follow-up operations for allegedly breaking into the house of sugarcane planter Ruben Dizon in Bgy. Laging Handa. The two men were allegedly members of the “Cuya Robbery Gang” led by Jonathan Cuya, 23, who was tagged as one of five men who hogtied and robbed members of the Dizon household. Cuya escaped while Reyes was confined at the MCU Hospital after getting hurt in a shootout with pursuing policemen. David was also arrested during follow-up operation. The gang has been tagged in several heists this year in which the victims are even hogtied by the suspects. Reyes and David were arrested after Dizon tracked their location on Sto. Cristo Street in Bgy. Balingasa, using the GPS installed in an iPad that the suspects had taken with them. The Cuya gang managed to cart away P10 million cash, jewelries and valuables but Dizon’s iPad, laptop, Samsung cellphone, two Cignal digiboxes, a digital video recorder, a portable DVD player, two shoulder bags and a travelling bag were found in David’s house.