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Date: 11 January 2010
Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/top-stories/590-deadly-checkpoint.html

THE suspected motorcycle thieves probably thought the checkpoint was just a game of hide-and-seek with the authorities. To taunt the cops, they rode their motorbike without helmets in Quezon City. They also turned deaf and their backs when lawmen told them to stop. The duo never imagined they were playing with death. 

Anti-carnapping operatives of the Quezon City Police District gunned down the two suspected motorcycle thieves who tried to elude a checkpoint along Central Avenue corner Visayas Avenue in Bgy. Culiat, QC, at 10:10 p.m. Sunday.

Senior Inspector Rodelio Marcelo, chief of the Anti-Carnapping Unit of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD), described the slain suspects as between 20 and 25 years old, at least 5″5 in height and fair complexioned. One is of medium built while the other is slim. 

He believes the suspects were also behind the theft of motorcycles along Commonwealth Avenue. The two were killed during a shootout with members of ANCAR and the District Police Operations and Intelligence Unit (DPIOU).  Recovered after the shootout were a .22 magnum revolver, a .38-cal. revolver and a stolen black Kawazaki motorcycle (4219 PK) owned by Boss Yvan Obogne. The suspects had placed stickers on the plate number so that it would read as 4218 RK.

The motorcycle was forcibly taken from Obogne  last January 7. 

Marcelo said that lawmen spotted the suspects on board a motorcycle without helmets. When the two turned back upon seeing the operatives, QCPD police gave chase and ordered them to stop. 

The suspects alighted from their motorcycle on Visayas Avene corner Central Avenue and fired at the cops. A shootout ensued with the two ending up dead.