'CR guard' faces lie-detector test over Cebu bank rob

Sun.Star: A lie-detector test now awaits a security guard who took a "CR (comfort room) break" just as armed men staged Tuesday a robbery at a rural bank in Mandaue City in Cebu. Sun.Star Cebu reported Thursday that the test would determine if Jovelo Jumawan took part of a suspected "inside job." This developed as two bank employees identified suspected Bohol Robbery Gang member Rodulfo Atega as one of two men who robbed the Peninsula Rural Bank (Penbank) in Mandaue City Tuesday. Senior Superintendent Alexander Abadinas, Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO) director, said Penbank employees saw a photo of Atega and identified him as the second man who entered the bank and announced a holdup. Abadinas said Atega has an arrest warrant for another crime. The city government plans to put up cash reward for information that will lead to the arrest of Atega and his companion. Two robbers, armed with .45-cal. pistols with silencers, fled with the cash from a teller’s counter and the vault in less than 10 minutes. Only last August 13, an armored-van robbery took place at La Nueva Supermart in downtown Cebu City. The robbers were also believed from the Bohol Robbery Gang. In that incident, the robbers fled with P2.7 million and shot two security guards. One of the security guards died last Monday. Abadinas said they will invite Jumawan, the security guard who was in the comfort room during the robbery, for a lie-detector test. Intelligence officer Insp. Ramon Villar said they will ask Jumawan to come up with an affidavit before they subject him to the test. Also to be investigated are all Penbank employees, this time by bank officials from Penbank’s head office in Cebu. Abadinas has so far cleared only security guard John Sabacajan, who left for Mindanao days before the robbery. He said the bank manager advised Sabacajan to take a rest as he is ill. Two men entered Penbank on SB Cabahug Street in Barangay (village) Ibabao at 12:15 p.m. last Tuesday and pulled off the robbery. Witnesses reported seeing four persons outside the bank who acted as lookouts. The four were riding tandem on two motorcycles. Cebu City police found abandoned motorcycles after the robbery, but Abadinas said none of these resembled the PenBank robbery getaway vehicle. - GMANews.TV