Security cameras at the store in the shopping mall recorded footage of the three suspects.
OZAMIZ CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
According to Rappler on January 2nd, Major Euridecy Revillas, Deputy Police Chief of Ozamiz, said that they had arrested a man named April John Permanhil, a festival employee suspected of assisting a gang of thieves who dug a tunnel into the Gaisano shopping center on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2023.
Major Revillas said police are searching for three suspects who appeared in CCTV footage on January 1st while breaking into the vaults of the GKC and Oro Italia Fine jewelry stores in the Gaisano shopping center.
CCTV footage also captured the gang attempting to pry open a MetroBank ATM located inside the shopping center.
"The tunnel starts from the festival area in the private housing complex next to the shopping mall," Major Revillas said.
The investigation revealed that the gang of thieves started from the festival area, dug through a cement drainage pipe, and made their way to the shopping mall's food court.
Once inside, the gang broke into the MetroBank ATM and stole 80,000 pesos in cash.
Next, they broke into the vault of the GKC jewelry store to steal jewelry and cash worth over 1.7 million pesos. Their next target was the Oro Italia Fine jewelry store, where approximately 40 million pesos worth of goods were stolen.
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