Police find carnappers’ lair in Mabalacat

MABALACAT — The town police recovered at least three luxury vehicles and a big volume of assorted car parts during a raid on Monday at a residence inside the Green Meadows Subdivision Phase 2 in Barangay Mabiga here.
Supt. Rolly Mendoza, town police chief, said a big-time carnapping syndicate might have been maintaining the suspected hideout.
Elements of the town police and Provincial Mobile Group (PMG) swooped down on a two-room apartment rented by one Jose Randolf Javier Enriquez, where car parts, including 15 engines, 35 pieces of tires with mags, a transmission, a car battery, a crocodile jack, and others were found.
Inside the compound of the apartment, a Hyundai Santa Fe Superior sports utility vehicle (NTI 548), a Honda VTEC City, and a Mitsubishi Montero sports utility vehicle were parked.
Mendoza said the raid was conducted by virtue of a search warrant issued by Judge Ismael P. Casabar of the Regional Trial Court Branch 33 of Guimba, Nueva Ecija for violation of the Anti-Carnapping Act against Enriquez.
The town police was able to secure the search warrant after the Highway Patrol Group certified that the Hyundai Santa Fe SUV parked inside Enriquez’s apartment was carjacked in Imus, Cavite recently.
Mendoza however said they have not yet established any proof linking the incident with that of the recent carnap-slay case involving the Dominguez group.
Last January 16, three barangay leaders conducting night patrol in the area reportedly encountered armed men who came from the said apartment.
The village officials reported the incident to the town police, which conducted a surveillance to determine if there are illegal activities inside the premises.
Residents in the neighborhood said they frequently see several luxury vehicles with red plates DOJ stickers come in and out of the compound especially at night over the past few months.
One of the residents told Sun.Star Pampanga that he often sees several SUVs parked outside the compound of the said apartment.
Aside from the vehicles and car parts, the Scene of the Crime Operatives also recovered drivers’ licenses, car keys, credit cards, and other valuables believed to be owned by the carnapping victims.
The seized vehicles and car accessories were turned over to the HPG, according to Mendoza.
He added that Enriquez, who is still at large, will be charged with carnapping
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