Another daylight rob, this time, in Loay brgy

IT was all over in a few minutes. Another daring daylight highway robbery left a lending collector without his P16T collections. The incident also added another entry into the piling list of unsolved robberies happening in Bohol highways.

The victim, whom Loay police later identified as Michael Coscos of Tinangnan, Tubigon thought it was just a routine collection route. Working as a lending collector and program assistance personnel, Coscos met with client borrowers in Sitio Candasag earlier that day. Suspects could have studied and mapped his schedules as they knew he'd take to the road on that day, noted investigators at Loay police Station..

As a collector for Taytay sa Kauswagan Incorporated (TSKI), he was meeting his company's assisted organizations and collecting their dues when the time came for him. After collecting, he took off on his red Honda XRM motorbike and proceeded to the city, a little past eleven. Later investigations revealed that while he was negotiating an uphill climb at the slippery portion of Sitio Canlasid, Tambangan barangay road around 11:20 am , four masked men carrying knives and a handgun flagged him down.

SPO4 Asterio Quinio of the Loay Police Station also said he was forced to stop, probably out of fear of being shot. The suspects then divested Coscos' of his collections amounting to P16,300 and an undetermined personal cash. From there, suspects blindfolded him with a t-shirt and tied him up. Victim was accordingly led to a deserted section of the road where he was left alone. The suspects then fled using his motorcycle and another get-away vehicle. SPO4 Quinio, Loay Police Officer in Charge said two cops immediately proceeded to the place and coordinated with Tambangan barangay tanods who were holding a checkpoint that. The suspects however fled out of the dragnet.

A few minutes after, fishers at Alegria Sur in Loay noticed an abandoned red XRM parked towards the sea, but did not report it until late at night when nobody claimed it. The motorcycle happened to that of the victim's. Nobody saw who left the vehicle. While police are still conducting investigations, SPO4 Quinio said they noticed that the crime was well planned as evidenced by the way it was staged. From the selection of the place to flag down on a deserted stretch, to the area where the victim was left, it showed that it was carefully planned. In a telephone interview with the Post, Quinio said he expects his police elements to make a breakthrough on the case and possibly bring the perpetrators to the bar of justice.

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