CAMP OLIVAS — A Pampanga police chief on Saturday was hurt after two Basag Kotse gang members ran over him with their getaway vehicle to escape arrest in Mexico, Pampanga.
In a report to PRO3 director Brig. Gen. Valeriano de Leon, Pampanga provincial police commander Col. Arnold Ibay said the police received a call on a “basag kotse” incident at San Guillermo Church in Bgy. Cabambangan, Bacolor, Pampanga from victims Fernando Contreras Jr., of 4C Cypress Garden Condominium in Makati City, and Asley Francisco, of Zone 7, Pulong Santol, Porac, Pampanga.
Ibay said Bacolor police chief Maj. German Pascua and his men conducted an investigation and based on CCTV footage, two still unidentified men smashed the right window of the victims’ Hyundai Starex and took their valuables and several gadgets before fleeing on a Toyota Hiace.
On the same day, the GPS locator of the stolen items tracked the suspects in Bgy. Masamat, Mexico, Pampanga.
The police team led by Pascua flagged down the suspects’ vehicle for verification and the victims positively identified the gadgets on the passenger seat as theirs.
The suspects in the vehicle were about to be arrested when the driver sped off and ran over the approaching Pascua.
Pascua was dragged by the suspects’ vehicle and sustained injuries. He was immediately brought to the nearest hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile, one of the suspects identified as Daniel Mercado, 49, of 142 Cherry St., Greenland Executive Village, San Juan, Cainta, Rizal, escaped after ramming the vehicle on a tree and escaped on foot.
Mercado was charged with theft, direct assault, attempted homicide, and resistance and disobedience to an agent of a person in authority while some of the stolen items were recovered.
” This only proves that our men on the ground are committed to implementing our Intensified Cleanliness Policy program to rid the society of lawlessness and we will continue to be unrelenting in our campaign at all costs,” De Leon said. –Photos by PRO3 Facebook Page