Cainta chief increases cellphone thief’s bounty
‘Someone wanted to have a picture with me and Vice Mayor Ace Servillon, but suddenly you volunteered to take a picture of us.‘
Daily Tribune‘Someone wanted to have a picture with me and Vice Mayor Ace Servillon, but suddenly you volunteered to take a picture of us.‘
Cainta, Rizal municipal administrator Keith Nieto has increased the bounty from P100,000 to P150,000 for the arrest of a thief who stole the iPhone of a basketball player at One Cainta Arena over the weekend.
"You even used a telegram app to contact the owner of the iPhone. You thought your sin would be lightened if you returned it to the owner?" Nieto said.
"I told you, I'm not interested in getting back what you stole. You are the one I want to meet," he added.
Nieto said he was watching an inter-department basketball league at One Cainta Arena on Thursday when someone asked him to have a picture with him and the suspect has volunteered to take the picture.
"Someone wanted to have a picture with me and vice mayor Ace Servillon, but suddenly you volunteered to take a picture of us. You bent down in front of the players' bench and you were seen picking up the player's iPhone then you asked for the phone of the person who wanted to have a picture with us, so it was not obvious, but the phone you stole was already at your hand," Nieto said.
"You get out immediately. After the game, the player discovered that his phone was missing. That's when the three people who saw you spoke," he added.
