A 28-year-old woman accused Manila cop taking away P30,000 from her that she was supposed to have used to pay for her hospitalization, allegedly because she was a snatching suspect.
Alicia Sigua, a native of Tarlac and resident of G. Puyat Street in Quiapo, filed her
complaint on Monday against Police Officer 2 Victor Canda the crime.
The cop is assigned to Station 4 of the Manila Police District (MPD), where Sigua tried to file her complaint. But on the way in she saw the cop on board his motorcycle. She tried to flag down him down, but the cop sped off.
Sigua decided to go to the MPD headquarters on United Nations Avenue in Ermita instead and file her complaint with Police Officer 3 Reginald de los Reye at the General Assignment Section.
She said the cop took the money from her last Saturday. She had just withdrawn the cash from a Western Union Branch on Morayta Street in Sampaloc at around noontime.
She said that the money had been deposited by her relatives to be used in her hospitalization.
She on her way home when Canda accosted her and told her that she was suspect in a snatching case. The cop then frisked the woman and took the money, including the receipt from the Western Union.
MPD probers had already invited the policeman to explain the incident. If he fails to present himself before the authorities on or before Tuesday, the MPD will file administrative and criminal charges against him.
When they get to the policeman, that abused his authority to steal the woman's money, all they will do is take 25,000 pesos of it from him and protect him.
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