{"id":15618,"date":"2025-08-04T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=15618"},"modified":"2025-08-04T22:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:50:33","slug":"seaman-wife-children-fall-prey-to-gapos-gang-in-bulacan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/seaman-wife-children-fall-prey-to-gapos-gang-in-bulacan\/","title":{"rendered":"SEAMAN, WIFE, CHILDREN FALL PREY TO \u2018GAPOS GANG\u2019 IN BULACAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>A SEAFARER, his wife, and children on Sunday fell prey to \u201cGapos Gang\u201d in Angat, Bulacan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a report to Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) director Brig. Gen. Ponce Rogelio <\/strong><em><strong>Pe\u00f1ones<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><strong>Jr., the Bulacan police identified&nbsp; the victims as retired seaman Jaime Chiapco, 66; his wife Marita, 64;&nbsp; and their son and daughter, all residents of Bgy. Taboc, Angat, Bulacan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The victims were about to leave their house when the four suspects, armed with long and short firearms, barged into their garage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The suspects forcibly took the victims inside the house , tied them up in the kitchen before ransacking the house.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The armed men took from the vault assorted jewelry&nbsp; worth at least P1 million, four mobile phones, a shotgun and a cal. .45 gun both registered to Jaime Chiapco.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Afterwards, the suspects destroyed the CCTV then fled with their loot on a silver Innova with plate no. KAL 1228.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The victims managed to untie themselves and immediately informed the police of the robbery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authorities are checking the CCTV footage in&nbsp; nearby areas for possible identification and arrest of the burglars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG A SEAFARER, his wife, and children on Sunday fell prey to &ldquo;Gapos Gang&rdquo; in Angat, Bulacan. In a report to Police Regional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15620,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15618\/revisions\/15620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}