{"id":18583,"date":"2026-02-03T02:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=18583"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:25:08","slug":"bulacan-businesswoman-robbed-of-cash-gold-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/bulacan-businesswoman-robbed-of-cash-gold-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"BULACAN BUSINESSWOMAN ROBBED OF CASH, GOLD PLATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A BUSINESSWOMAN engaged in gold trading on Monday was robbed of cash and valuables on Albatros St. in Bgy. Pandayan, Meycauayan City, 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 Marinela Labudlay, 40, of Bgy. Saluysoy, Meycauayan City.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The victim was driving her BMW X5 (plate NIM 8608) when one of the suspects riding a motorcycle sideswiped the right portion of her vehicle and blocked her path.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another vehicle then blocked her from behind. One of the suspects, armed with a hammer, approached and smashed the front passenger-side window.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two other suspects &#8211; one reportedly armed with an unidentified firearm &#8211; confronted the victim on the driver\u2019s side.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another suspect also used a hammer to break the driver-side window while repeatedly demanding, \u201cWhere is the gold?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The suspects forcibly took the victim\u2019s wallet containing checkbooks, three copper plates valued at P100,000, credit cards, two ATM cards, her driver\u2019s license, and cash amounting to about P20,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The suspects fled in a silver Mitsubishi Mirage (plate NCS 1341) toward the west service road leading to the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authorities found the motorcycle used in the crime, a Yamaha Mio Soul I (plate DA57553), abandoned at the scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also recovered were the two hammers believed to have been used in the attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The victim described the suspects as slim-built males wearing green long-sleeved shirts, pants, shoes, and balaclava masks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Personnel of the Meycauayan City police immediately conducted backtracking operations at possible exit points, and issued a flash alarm for possible apprehension of the suspects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG A BUSINESSWOMAN engaged in gold trading on Monday was robbed of cash and valuables on Albatros St. in Bgy. Pandayan, Meycauayan City,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18584,"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\/18583"}],"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=18583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18585,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583\/revisions\/18585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}