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City PNP investigating
fratmen for abduction

BY ADRIAN NEMES III

Several members of a fraternity are being investigated for possible links to the abduction of a teenager in Bacolod City Wednesday and who was freed in Miag-ao town, Iloilo province on the same day, City Police Director Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz, said yesterday.

De la Paz said they have received information that the victim, a second year chemical engineering student and the son of a businessman and a teacher from northern Negros Occidental, was being recruited by members of the fraternity but he ignored them.

He said they are trying to verify if the fraternity members have something to do with the abduction.

De la Paz said that, during their investigation, they learned that the victim’s wallet was recovered 50 meters away from the police station of Miag-ao town, Iloilo.

Another thing that puzzles them, de la Paz added, is that the victim’s classmate, who is a student of the University of the Philippines Miag-ao Campus, called him through the landline telephone of the town police five minutes after he reported the abduction incident but did not come to visit and check his situation.

“Normally, if someone we know is in trouble and we were informed about it, our instinct is to visit them and check if they were okay, but the victim’s classmate did not do that”, de la Paz said.

Bacolod City Police Office is also coordinating with the victim’s school to get additional information on the case.

If the victim was, indeed, abducted, the suspects will face charges for slight illegal detention. When asked, however, what will be the consequences for the teenager if he was not really abducted, de la Paz refused to comment.

The victim told the police that he was walking along 21st Street, Bacolod between 3:30 to 4 p.m. Wednesday when four armed men abducted him and forced him into their compartment of their car

He said the suspects took his wrist watch and P9,800 in cash intended for his tuition fee.*APN

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