{"id":18443,"date":"2026-01-25T02:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=18443"},"modified":"2026-01-25T02:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:24:53","slug":"pakistani-in-budol-budol-scam-arrested-in-bulacan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/pakistani-in-budol-budol-scam-arrested-in-bulacan\/","title":{"rendered":"PAKISTANI IN \u2018BUDOL-BUDOL\u2019 SCAM ARRESTED IN BULACAN\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A PAKISTANI national on Thursday was arrested by the police while his two alleged cohorts are being hunted following a \u201cbudol-budol\u201d incident at a restaurant in Bgy. Igulot, Bocaue, Bulacan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A report to Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) director Brig. Gen. Ponce Rogelio Penones Jr. by the Bulacan police identified the victim as Jocelyn Marino, 59, a businesswoman and a resident of Bgy. Wakas in Bocaue.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The suspect was alias \u201cAli,\u201d a 53-year-old \u00a0Pakistani national, and a cook staying in Bgy. Lolomboy, Bocaue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marino told police that the swindling occurred\u00a0\u00a0inside the Black Pink Samgeupsal branch in Bgy. Igulot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>She said she was duped of P30,000 by the suspects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A review of the restaurant\u2019s CCTV footage revealed that \u201cAli\u201d was engaged in a conversation with the victim while the second suspect allegedly took P30,000 from the victim\u2019s bag in exchange for a one-dollar bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The third suspect reportedly distracted the restaurant personnel to prevent them from noticing the scam.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authorities said the victim appeared to be distracted or momentarily disoriented during the incident.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The two suspects already left the area when the businesswoman noticed that her money was missing\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The victim immediately sought help from the village watchmen, who arrested the Pakistani national and turned him over to responding policemen.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG &nbsp; A PAKISTANI national on Thursday was arrested by the police while his two alleged cohorts are being hunted following a &ldquo;budol-budol&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18444,"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\/18443"}],"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=18443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18445,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions\/18445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}