This past year, I've noticed increasing reports about motorcycle-riding gunmen. I was surprised to find out that... "Of the 424 crimes reported, 156 were robberies in the form of hold-ups and snatchings. A total 150 of these crimes involved shootings, including 50 murders." And this was from a report file in the middle of the year. FULL REPORT HERE.
Today, the Inquirer reported a very unusual motorcycle related crime: "Six men on board motorcycles gunned down a still unidentified man along Commonwealth Avenue, just outside the University of the Philippines Diliman campus in Quezon City on Sunday. Initial investigation showed that at around 4:33 p.m. Sunday, the victim was standing on a center island on Commonwealth Avenue, just in front of the UP Asian Institute of Tourism, when the six men drove by." FULL REPORT HERE.
I also remember similar shootings reported, wherein people were just shot on the street and they weren't robbed. I'm trying to track down those reports, but from what I recall, the victims were ordinary people with ordinary jobs.
They were not politicians or people who carried a lot of money. The motorcycle gunmen, just rode up next to them, shot them, and drove away.
How strange.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
The Return of the Hypno Thief
And we have another report of someone who supposedly got hypnotized and surrendered her money to a pair of con artists.
Student loses P10,000 to con artists by DJ Yap, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 11/02/2008
MANILA, Philippines--A pair of con artists sweet-talked a nursing student into parting with her tuition money Sunday morning while she was waiting for a passenger jeepney in Pasig City, the police said.
Joyce Ann Sanchez, 17, lost P10,000 in cash and two mobile phones to a man and a woman, in what the police described as a "budol budol" (hypnotism) scam, a report in the Pasig Police Station blotter said.
read the full report at:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20081102-169832/Student-loses-P10000-to-con-artists
Fellow wanna-be profiler Tania, finally sets-up a blog and weighs on this so-called criminals with hypnotic powers. Read her entry at:
http://taniaarpa.blogspot.com/2008/11/con.html
Student loses P10,000 to con artists by DJ Yap, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 11/02/2008
MANILA, Philippines--A pair of con artists sweet-talked a nursing student into parting with her tuition money Sunday morning while she was waiting for a passenger jeepney in Pasig City, the police said.
Joyce Ann Sanchez, 17, lost P10,000 in cash and two mobile phones to a man and a woman, in what the police described as a "budol budol" (hypnotism) scam, a report in the Pasig Police Station blotter said.
read the full report at:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20081102-169832/Student-loses-P10000-to-con-artists
Fellow wanna-be profiler Tania, finally sets-up a blog and weighs on this so-called criminals with hypnotic powers. Read her entry at:
http://taniaarpa.blogspot.com/2008/11/con.html
Friday, October 31, 2008
most violent 24-hour in QC
8 persons killed, cop shot on ‘Good Friday’ in Quezon City
By Marlon Ramos, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 03/22/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- As Filipino Catholics marked the passion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, eight persons, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed while a policeman was shot and wounded in six separate incidents during what police said could be the most violent 24-hour period in Quezon City.
READ THE FULL REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20080322-125856/8-persons-killed-cop-shot-on-Good-Friday-in-Quezon-City
By Marlon Ramos, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 03/22/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- As Filipino Catholics marked the passion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, eight persons, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed while a policeman was shot and wounded in six separate incidents during what police said could be the most violent 24-hour period in Quezon City.
READ THE FULL REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20080322-125856/8-persons-killed-cop-shot-on-Good-Friday-in-Quezon-City
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Psychic helping police solve murder
Psychic helping police solve murder of lawyer, son
By Jocelyn Uy, Inquirer, December 14, 2006
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metroregions/view_article.php?article_id=38359
POLICE are seeking the help even of psychics as they continue to face a blank wall in the investigation of the murder of Assistant Solicitor General Nestor Ballocillo and his 23-year-old son Benedict.
“We are doing our best to solve the case. We have also sought the assistance of psychics in solving the mystery,” Southern Police District director Chief Superintendent Roberto Rosales told reporters Thursday.
The Ballocillos were on their way to Nestor’s office in Makati City last December 6 when two armed men shot them at close range.
The Parañaque police and the National Bureau of Investigation said earlier the killing could be work-related.
At a press conference Thursday, Rosales said a colleague from Camp Crame had introduced him to a psychic, whose name was withheld for security purposes.
The psychic volunteered to help solve the case, asking the police director for basic details.
“I was asked to give the name and birthdays of the victims,” Rosales said.
He accepted the offer after having seen on television how the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States was assisted by psychics and clairvoyants in crime detection and investigation, he added.
Foreign intelligence and police agencies have started to tap people with psychic capabilities for help in resolving puzzling crimes.
Rosales said the psychic had already provided names that could help identify the gunman and his location.
He said the information would be compared to results of the investigation conducted so far through conventional means.
“The psychic’s findings would just help provide the leads. We will still rely on the scientific findings. But it would be helpful if the psychic’s information corroborate our investigation,” he said.
Meanwhile, Parañaque City police chief Superintendent Ronald Estilles said they were working double time to capture the killers.
Estilles told the Inquirer Thursday that five witnesses were ready to identify the suspects.
By Jocelyn Uy, Inquirer, December 14, 2006
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metroregions/view_article.php?article_id=38359
POLICE are seeking the help even of psychics as they continue to face a blank wall in the investigation of the murder of Assistant Solicitor General Nestor Ballocillo and his 23-year-old son Benedict.
“We are doing our best to solve the case. We have also sought the assistance of psychics in solving the mystery,” Southern Police District director Chief Superintendent Roberto Rosales told reporters Thursday.
The Ballocillos were on their way to Nestor’s office in Makati City last December 6 when two armed men shot them at close range.
The Parañaque police and the National Bureau of Investigation said earlier the killing could be work-related.
At a press conference Thursday, Rosales said a colleague from Camp Crame had introduced him to a psychic, whose name was withheld for security purposes.
The psychic volunteered to help solve the case, asking the police director for basic details.
“I was asked to give the name and birthdays of the victims,” Rosales said.
He accepted the offer after having seen on television how the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States was assisted by psychics and clairvoyants in crime detection and investigation, he added.
Foreign intelligence and police agencies have started to tap people with psychic capabilities for help in resolving puzzling crimes.
Rosales said the psychic had already provided names that could help identify the gunman and his location.
He said the information would be compared to results of the investigation conducted so far through conventional means.
“The psychic’s findings would just help provide the leads. We will still rely on the scientific findings. But it would be helpful if the psychic’s information corroborate our investigation,” he said.
Meanwhile, Parañaque City police chief Superintendent Ronald Estilles said they were working double time to capture the killers.
Estilles told the Inquirer Thursday that five witnesses were ready to identify the suspects.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Paranormal Expert Jaime Licauco writes about the Hypno Thief
“The use of hypnosis to commit crimes is not really new in the Philippines. We've long heard many stories of store cashiers voluntarily handing over the cash in the register to a stranger, usually described as Indian-looking, after being hypnotized into doing so. When the stranger leaves the store with the cash, the cashier awakens from her trance wondering what had happened to her.”
You can read his two articles about it at:
1
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view/20081006-164928/Criminals-now-use-hypnosis-to-rob-people
2
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view/20081020-167502/Criminals-who-use-hypnosis
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