Bus driver Bobby Bondoc, 36, was arrested when he admitted to the police his participation in the holdup incident inside the bus he was driving. All his passengers were divested of their belongings when four armed men boarded the southbound Malanday Metro Link bus and declared a holdup.
The director of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Chief Superintendent Richard Albano said Bondoc feigned innocence as he accompanied all his passengers to Police Station 10 to file a complaint about the robbery. When the police took the driver’s statement, they grew suspicious and pressed him for more answers when they noticed inconsistencies in his account of the holdup incident. Bondoc eventually admitted his participation in the robbery.
During the questioning on Bondoc, his accomplices contacted him and told him they will rob his bus once more, unaware that their partner in crime was already in the custody of the police. The police immediately launched a dragnet operation when the driver promised to cooperate.
However, the robbers changed its plan and instead, the gang robbed a CHER bus with plate number TYW 957. They fled using as a getaway vehicle, a Diane and Keisey taxicab
with plate number TXF 806.
Aside from the Diane and Keisey taxi, the police were able to recover a laptop, wristwatches, wallets, several IDs and cell phones. Also found in their hide out were six sachets of methamphetamine hydrochloride, or shabu, drug paraphernalia, three caliber .38 revolvers and a hand grenade.
The QCPD police are looking for the possibility that the arrested group were involved in other cases of bus robberies along Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA).
