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Date: 24 November 2013
Source: Journal Online

COMBINED agents of the Philippine National Police Highway Patrol Group and the Bulacan Police Provincial Office yesterday smashed a notorious car theft ring operating in Metro Manila and Central Luzon following a raid in Baliwag town which led to the arrest of three suspects and the recovery of 13 suspected stolen motor vehicles, a report to PNP chief Director General Alan LM Purisima said.

PNP-HPG director Chief Superintendent Arrazad P. Subong said the operation in Bgy. Matang Tubig in Baliwag led to the arrest of the suspects led by one Jasmine Reyes, the mother of Mark Joseph Reyes and wife of MacLester Reyes, a notorious car theft personality. Criminal chargesare being prepared against the arrested suspects.

The Reyeses have been arrested several times by the police and charged in different courts for violation of the anti-carnapping and anti-fencing laws although they have effectively found a way to post bail to the consternation of authorities.

Subong said his men, led by Supt. Ferdinand Villanueva of the HPG Special Operations Division-Task Force Limbas, recovered two motor vehicles from the suspects, one of them an L3-FB van which turned out to be included in the list of wanted stolen motor vehicles following a check with the HPG Vehicle Information Management System.

Subong said follow-up operations led to the discovery of more or less 11 more motor vehicles parked inside the compound of the Reyeses.

A verification of the plate numbers attached on the vehicles revealed that four of them were included in the same list of wanted stolen motor vehicles, prompting the HPG to apply for a search warrant which was approved by a local judge. 

McLester Reyes had his own brushes with the law in the past. In 2011 and 2012, he became the target of a massive police operation amid reports on his involvement in car thefts. In 2011, he was arrested inside a suspected warehouse of carnapped and dismantled vehicles in Bgy. Sindalan, San Fernando City in Pampanga then  allegedly operated by persons affiliated with the Dominguez carnapping syndicate.