Liloan robbery try: Police to profile, check CCTV to identify suspects

Emmariel Ares 01/12/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police here will be conducting a profiling and checking of CCTV footage to determine the identity of the suspects of a failed robbery in Barangay Poblacion, Liloan town on Wednesday afternoon, January 10,…

Yearender 2023: The biggest crime stories in Cebu

Emmariel Ares 12/29/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The year 2023 has been quite an eventful time for Cebuanos, particularly in terms of crime occurrence. Throughout the year, the number of various types of criminal activities spiked up and caused citizens…

Suspected thief says breakup with partner drove him to rob pawnshop in Cebu City

Emmariel Ares 12/14/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — After his common law partner ended their relationship, a 25-year-old man decided to rob a pawnshop in Cebu City on Thursday morning, December 14, 2023, to provide money for their two young kids.…

Pawnshop robbery mastermind is ex-political prisoner, juris doctor

Emmariel Ares 11/30/2023

  CEBU CITY, Philippines – The police have identified a former political detainee as the alleged mastermind behind the daring robbery of a pawnshop and jewelry store in broad daylight along Colon Street on Saturday, November 25,…

Pawnshop robbery: Police to file charges against 6 suspects

Emmariel Ares 11/29/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Police here will be filing charges against six individuals including the alleged mastermind of the daring pawnshop robbery in Cebu City on Saturday, November 25. Police Colonel Ireneo B. Dalogdog, City Director of…

Pawnshop robbery: 3 more persons identified in ‘robbery group’

Emmariel Ares 11/28/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Police here have identified three more persons believed to be members of a big robbery group that staged the daring pawnshop robbery in Cebu City on Saturday, November 25, 2023. This progress in…

Robbery: Robbers who posed as ‘NBI agents’ loot jewelry store in Cebu City

Emmariel Ares and Paul Lauro 11/25/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Four men who claimed to be NBI agents, robbed a jewelry store in Colon Street, Cebu City early Saturday morning, November 25, 2023. The robbery incident took place at around 9:05 a.m. and…

The Lhuillier legacy: A glimpse of the history behind one of the nation’s biggest financial biz, M Lhuillier

Yann Magcamit 05/03/2023

When thinking of a trusted local pawnshop and money remittance center, the first name that often comes to Filipinos’ minds is M Lhuillier. M Lhuillier is one of the Philippines’ largest non-bank financial institutions, whose services include…

Probe continues on pawnshop robbery in Argao 

Morexette Marie Erram, Paul Lauro 04/17/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Investigation is still ongoing to shed light on the daylight robbery that took place in a pawnshop in Argao town, southern Cebu last Saturday, April 15, 2023. As of Monday, April 17, police in Argao…

Police looking for remaining suspects in mall heist

Alven Marie A. Timtim 10/21/2019

Cebu City, Philippines—The police authorities are now looking for certain Ryan, Mark, Tony Boy, and Ranger, who are the remaining suspects involved in the robbery inside J Centre Mall in Mandaue City on Saturday night, October 19,…

Sun Life teams up with Raquel Pawnshop to offer affordable insurance

PR 02/11/2019

In its bid to make life insurance more accessible to more Filipinos, Sun Life of Canada (Philippines), Inc. (SLOCPI) has teamed up with Raquel Pawnshop, a financial services institution offering a variety of services such as pawning,…

Police eye inside job angle in Liloan pawnshop robbery

Benjie Talisic 02/05/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police are investigating if the pawnshop robbery in Liloan town on Monday, February 4 was an inside job. Senior Police Office (SPO1) Jonas Catubig of the Liloan Police Station told Cebu Daily News…

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