BY RAYMART ESCOPEL
ILOILO City – Three unsuspecting boarders lent money to a housemate pleading for financial help.
After getting the money, however, this housemate disappeared – and took with him the other valuables of the three boarders.
The three were Jake Adrian Bernasol, Jensen Castor and Phoenix Perocho. They were renting rooms at a boarding house in Brgy. Magdalo, La Paz district.
The man they helped was supposedly new in the boarding house and needed money. They lent him a total of P1,400.
The three may have been distracted by the man’s dramatics; they failed to get his name.
Complaining to the La Paz police station, the three said they also lost personal belongings and suspected the man to be the culprit, too.
Among the items they lost were pairs of shoes, two units of cell phones and a bag.
They estimated the loot to have reached P13,399.
One of them also lost P600 cash./PN
