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Quick-thinking and an alert Glorietta store staff and security
personnel stopped four suspects from using a stolen credit card to
buy expensive signature items.
Complainant Imelda Dominguez, a public relations
executive, alerted mall security on Friday afternoon after
discovering that her Citibank Visa card was still being used at the
very moment she was reporting the card’s loss to a bank personnel
on the phone.
Citibank was able to track the shops where the
stolen card was used Friday afternoon. The mall security was
immediately told of the ongoing transactions at the Confetti retail
shop in Glorietta 1.
However, by the time mall security personal
reached the shop, the suspects had already left because the stolen
card was declined. Nonetheless, the Confetti staff gave an accurate
description of the suspects, including the expensive branded
packages they were carrying. An alert was then given to all exits of
the mall.
Within minutes, the four suspects, including a
toddler, were apprehended by mall security and brought to the police
precinct at the Ayala MRT Station.
Arrested were Maria Connie Enriquez, 22; Rey
Paul Ibañez Mendoza, 18; Robert Castaneda, 22; and Regie Enriquez,
21.
During interrogation, the suspects pointed their
fingers at another suspect, Pauline Arenal, 25, an employee of Red
Box KTV located at Greenbelt 3, as the one who allegedly gave them
the go signal to use the stolen credit card.
Matrix Entertainment, owners of Red Box KTV,
cooperated in turning over Arenal to the police, including the Visa
card of Dominguez and a package counter number from Landmark Dept.
Store, where Arenal was believed to have stashed some of the items
bought with the stolen credit card.
The five suspects are now at the Makati Central
Police Station awaiting their inquest today for charges of violating
the Credit Card Access Law.
-- Jing Garcia
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