Suspected “Budol-Budol” thieves struck again in Bacolod City yesterday and took P30,000 worth of jewelries from a Bacolod businesswoman, a police report said.

Mersi Locsin, 36, of Corea Building, Rosario-Araneta streets in Bacolod told the police that about 9:30 a.m., she was in front of a bank at Araneta Street yesterday when a woman approached her.

Locsin said the woman introduced herself as a fish vendor, and asked where she could rent a vehicle to deliver her goods.

While they were talking, another woman butted in and told them that she has a rent-a-car business.

One of them showed Locsin a paper bag allegedly containing P50,000 cash. The two instructed her to put her four gold rings, gold necklace, and pair of earrings inside the paper bag with their money.

The suspects later went away, leaving the paper bag with her. When they failed to return, she opened the bag and found her jewelries gone and the bundles of money had been replaced with cut paper.

Investigation disclosed that the suspects were Tagalog-speaking, were 5 feet and an inch tall, and 5 feet and two inches tall, and aged 30 to 35.

On June 5, a cashier of the Kabankalan City government claimed that she was victimized also by suspected “Budol-Budol” thieves while she was at the SM City department store in Bacolod.

Fe Gregorio, 51, of Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental said the suspects, one of them an alleged Malaysian national, took more than half a million pesos in cash and valuables from her.

Police Station commander Senior Insp. Luisito Acebuche said they are investigating the case.*APN

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