ILOILO City – Two swindling suspects were arrested in an entrapment operation on Bonifacio Drive here yesterday.
Renalie Lavalle, 38, was a resident of Barangay Guzman Jesena, Mandurriao district while Marie Trexie Joguilon, 31, was from Barangay Ungka II, Pavia, Iloilo.
According to Police Major Jose Mark Anthony Gesulga, Mandurriao police chief, the operation was launched following a complaint made by businesswoman Shiela Ompar, 42, of Tapaz, Capiz.
Ompar told the police she met with the suspects on May 25, the time she visited her husband Amer who was detained at the Mandurriao police station (for illegal drugs and illegal possession of firearms charges).
The suspects were also detained that time – for estafa charges.
According to Ompar, the two women transacted with her, saying they would help her husband get out of prison, according to Ompar.
The suspects asked for P30,000 for “processing of documents for bail bond”, she said.
Ompar gave an initial P15,000 the following day.
It turned out – Omar had no idea – that the two women used the P15,000 to bail themselves out.
Then they asked Omar for the remaining P15,000.
Suspicious, Omar sought the police’s help.
“We then set the entrapment,” Gesulga said. “Ompar told them to meet her in front of the Iloilo Hall of Justice (on Bonifacio Drive here). The suspects personally received the money. They were notorious and they have pending estafa cases.”
The suspects were brought back to the Mandurriao police station. Another estafa charge would be filed against them.
Ompar’s husband Amer was arrested on May 25 in Barangay Loboc, La Paz district with his brother Solayman, 19, for allegedly selling shabu and possessing several firearms and ammunition./PN
