Philippine Daily Inquirer

Burglar caught after returning to crime scene

- Jovic Yee

A BURGLAR was arrested by authoritie­s on Saturday after he returned to the house he had robbed the day before to recover his lost cell phone. Clark Anton Noynay was subsequent­ly charged with robbery after he took more than P64,000 worth of gadgets and jewelry from Pagasa Anastacio and her family as they were sound asleep inside their house on Bicol Street in Barangay Payatas B on Friday night. PO2 Rolando Laddaran of the Quezon City Police District's Batasan Station said that Noynay was caught on Saturday by two barangay security officers as he was looking for the cell phone he had dropped behind his victims’ house. Anastacio told the police that she woke up around 11:30 p.m. on Friday and saw the suspect exiting through a small opening at the back of their house. She would later discover that he had stolen watches and several pieces of jewelry and gadgets. The police later seized from the 25-year-old suspect half of the loot, including his cell phone.

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