{"id":19687,"date":"2026-04-19T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=19687"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:22:11","slug":"3-gold-buyers-lose-p3-3-m-to-robbers-in-tarlac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/3-gold-buyers-lose-p3-3-m-to-robbers-in-tarlac\/","title":{"rendered":"3 GOLD BUYERS LOSE P3.3-M TO ROBBERS IN TARLAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SAN JOSE, Tarlac \u2014 Three men on Friday lost some P3.3 million in cash and valuables to a group of robbers at \u00a0Sitio Baag, Bgy. Iba, this town.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A report to Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) director Brig. Gen. Jess Mendez identified the victims as Ruben Dizu Gali, 52, a retired members of the Philippine Marines; Hadji Juganas de Guzman, 31; and Mark Olarve, all residents of San Fabian, Pangasinan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The victims went to Bgy. Iba aboard an Isuzu D-Max pickup truck to purchase gold bars from a contact.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Upon arrival at the agreed area, they were suddenly approached by around 13 armed men who declared a hold-up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the suspects was identified as \u201cCapu,\u201d\u00a0 about 50 years old and a resident of Capas, Tarlac, who arranged the meeting with the victims prior to the robbery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The suspects allegedly took the P3,060,000 cash, mobile phones worth around P200,000, a gold tester valued at P60,000, as well as credit cards, identification cards, and other personal belongings of the victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The group fled toward an unknown direction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow-up investigation and manhunt operations are ongoing to identify and arrest the suspects. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KEVIN GALANG &nbsp; SAN JOSE, Tarlac &mdash; Three men on Friday lost some P3.3 million in cash and valuables to a group of robbers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19688,"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\/19687"}],"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=19687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19689,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687\/revisions\/19689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}