P7-M worth of Pentium 4 processors smuggled

By DEL VILLANUEVA, MB

DASMARIÑAS, Cavite – Police operatives here arrested two men and seized some R7-million worth of computer chips smuggled out of Intel Corp. at Gateway Industrial Park in General Trias, this province.

Chief Inspector Antonio C. Yarra, this town’s police chief, identified the arrested suspects as Rodel Tarobago, 27, an Intel operator and resident of Victoria Reyes, Dasmariñas Bagong Bayan, and Erickson Lainez, 27, of Stateland, Buenavista, General Trias.

Yarra said that about 10 p.m. last Wednesday, the police received a call from Walter Mart management that a van loaded with armed men was seen at the parking lot of the establishment.

Responding policemen checked a Besta van and accosted Lainez and Tarrobago who was carrying a Magnum revolver in the vicinity of Walter Mart.

When the lawmen searched the van, they discovered 44 pieces of Pentium 4 processors.

Police investigators found out that the processors were properties of Intel Corp. and that the two suspects spirited the expensive computer sets out of the firm’s plant in General Trias.

The suspects were detained in the Dasmariñas police station. Charges were prepared against them.

Meanwhile, in Naic, Cavite, a 66-year-old witness to a crime was shot dead after attending a hearing at the Regional Trial Court in this town.

Police said that Ely Hernandez of Barangay Halang here died of multiple bullet wounds in the body when four armed men shot him just after he attended a court hearing last Tuesday.

Police found several empty shells of .45 caliber bullets at the crime scene.

Supt. Rhodel Sermonia, Cavite police investigation and intelligence officer, said that his men are still tracking down the chief of the barangay tanod of Halang whom they believed as one of the suspects in the shooting.

The tanod chief identified only as a certain Consumo might be harboring a grudge against the victim for offering his services as one of the witnesses in the case.

In another violent incident, a 21-year- old student was charged in court for allegedly manhandling a policeman while creating trouble during a concert in Noveleta, Cavite

 

 

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