By Glazyl Y. Masculino
BACOLOD City – Police are looking for three unidentified armed robbers who allegedly held up a restaurant and stole a car and a motorcycle of a food delivery rider in Barangay Alijis here early Tuesday.
Police Captain Elmer Bonilla, head of Police Station 7, said three persons on board a gray sedan arrived at the restaurant to buy softdrinks.
But when the 26-year-old restaurant owner told them that they have no softdrinks, the men allegedly declared the heist at gunpoint.
Bonilla said the robbers, one of whom was armed with a pistol, failed to get a dime from the owner because the store only catered to cashless transactions.
The robbers instead allegedly took the motorcycle of a 29-year-old food delivery rider who was waiting for a customer’s order outside the restaurant, Bonilla said.
They also reportedly took three cellular phones of the restaurant owner’s boyfriend, a laptop computer, a gray Toyota Wigo owned by the restaurant owner, the food delivery rider’s cash sales amounting to P3,000, cellular phone, and his P7,000 savings, according to the police report.
The robbers then fled on board the stolen vehicles and their get-away vehicle. The victims were unharmed.
The Toyota Wigo was later recovered at Barangay 25.
Police have yet to disclose if valuables and other items were missing in the car.
Another abandoned car was also recovered by police in Barangay Mandalagan, Bonilla said. But police are unsure if the vehicle was the one used by the suspects.
Bonilla said the motorcycle is still missing. Investigation is ongoing.
