Mabolo church loses P400K to burglar

Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak shows the cabinet where St. Joseph the Patriarch Parish keeps its cash donations. (CDN PHOTO/JUNJIE MENDOZA)

A  CASH donation worth P400,000 was taken by a burglar from the St. Joseph the Patriarch Parish in Mabolo, Cebu City on Sunday evening.

Chief Insp. Jacinto Mandal, head of the Mabolo police, said investigators have already identified the suspect of the burglary.

“He (suspect) is a church scholar. He also has a relative inside the church,” says Mandal.

The suspect allegedly beat Roxan Valmoria, one of the staff in the church.

Valmoria was taken to the hospital for medication.

The suspect, however, is still at large.

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